Marked From Birth
what it could no longer use.
Elen, still stationed at the Soul-Refinery, noticed the "Build-Up." The "Drain" was becoming "Clogged." The "Dead-Logic" was forming into "Grey-Planes," flat, non-dimensional barriers that threatened to "Back-Up" the entire system. If the "Drain" failed, the "Waste-Entropy" would flood back into the First-Engine, "Polluting" the Soul-Oil and turning the "Universal-Thrum" into a "Death-Rattle."