Re: [ The Spiraling City, King's Year 197, midautumn ]
[Hint: The small sitting room is lined with shelves and cupboards filled with all manner of mechanical gadgets and tools, pieces of technology from all over the continent in various states of assembly (and disassembly). A mess of tangled wire remains on the coffee table, as if it were put down mid-project.
Hint: the door to the next room is still open, the opulent bed within covered in recently tangled sheets.
Hint: the workroom glimpsed through the door on the opposite side is far from tidy, but nothing within looks attended to within the past hour.
Hint: The head of an old Cephean lamp hangs beside the glass doors that look out to the balcony without, its light replaced by a small mechanical bird.]