Re: [ELSEWHERE]
[the ground warms under her touch. she draws it up slowly, shaping it with her fingers as a glassblower would do with his tools, reworking it into red-hot familiar shapes. but ... instead of its original color, the new glass is flecked with deep royal violet, and the images reflected in its surfaces are from a different time entirely. Great gears and a master key, an order of technicians and scholars...]