Compilation Of Short Stories
He was known only as the Artisan, a man who spoke more in the language of spanners and oil than words, and his universe was a cathedral of ticking blackness. His workshop was a labyrinth of half-made things: brass limbs suspended from copper threads, glass eyes staring blankly from velvet trays, and the constant, muttering hiss of steam from a dozen soft engines. And in the center, on an obsidian pedestal, stood his creation, his secret shame, his passion.