The Distant Crown
The bell tolled. Not from a church steeple, but from the iron lungs of the machine itself. It was a sound that tasted of rust and old rain. Silas stood on the gantry, looking down into the chasm of the boiler room. Below him, the water did not boil. It breathed. It expanded and contracted with a slow, tidal rhythm that defied the laws of thermodynamics. It defied time. He adjusted the strap of...
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