Zander_Drax

Once upon a time, in a great and peaceful land there thrived a learned and ambitious guild of Engineer-Alchemists. They could create precise machines and delicate automata that were made with such care and purpose that they would always work exactly as their creators intended. Their softly spoken secret language...

> Epistemic status: Fiction. A short story about safety, ambition, memory and the sky. It was heresy. Not in the old sense, not the fevered speech of prophets and fools. This heresy wore gloves and goggles. It sang in lab flasks and condensing coils. It flowed clear and odorless into...