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[prosopopoeia]

DELACROIX to CITIZENS: 05-01-???? re: the CLOCK

Do not be so complacent and easily distracted. We are at a tenuous juncture. New methods must be put into place or this city is at an end.

I do not yet know how thoroughly entwined that clock is with this environment, but it is failing.

Comments

[mortemscintilla]

M-Meaning they could come back at any time.

[prosopopoeia]

Or others like them, yes.

[mortemscintilla]

It makes me wonder how closely the old Deities were tied to the clock.

Especially with how weird it's being.

[prosopopoeia]

I don't know. The idea has been expressed to me that their position was to keep the clock running.

[mortemscintilla]

It might be true after all.

[ A careful pause. ]

Have you managed to get near it?

[prosopopoeia]

Not as near as I would like, they have kept me back. It is a dangerous machine, and I acknowledge my ignorance in its workings. But it is difficult to learn from a distance.

[mortemscintilla]

[ His own efforts to examine the clock have yielded to spectacularly little results. But that's only whet his curiosity. (Of course he doesn't say that.) ]

That must be frustrating.

But I hope you'll be careful not to do anything risky, Miss. [ u r p ] N-Not to imply you make bad choices. Just, well... [ He's said it before. Trouble follows you around. (In this case the 'trouble might be BK201.) ]

[prosopopoeia]

I will be fine.