Re: [The Mechanical City]
[You return to the clean streets of stone and metal, everything nearly uniform, study and ingeniously built to optimize space in the city. The guttering of candles and lanterns on posts have been slowly replaced by wires and a few oddly white orbs seem to glow here and there upon their perch. The night air is filled with light, dulling the views of the sky and the stars in the moonless sky are fewer than there should be for some reason. However, your footsteps are sure, even without your own illumination.
Around you see the signs of progress, printed signboards, advertising the latest in clockworks and the marvels of steam. The aqueducts move clear water above your paths, alongside of the muddier channels still used for travel. You smell, every now and then, rich food cooking from residences, even at this late hour, apparently just as work shifts seem to have ended.
Your destination is up ahead, the great reinforced steel doors inset into a gargantuan building at the center of the city, perfectly circular and without windows... ]