Title: Machineries of Mikkary
Fandom: Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Icka for encouragement & sanity-checking. Image originally posted here.
Summary: Not merely measured days, hours twenty-four, but any, all; counted, kept, constrained, compressed to mikkary.





Titan clocks keep time: prisoned, bound, measured fast in grim and glabrous coils, tight-wound moments, minutes, pinned in insect-like array. Ponderous escapement no escape from dread repeated, seconds spun to centuries, distilled to still despair.

The clocks steal time: seal it up in brass and bone, thieving septads, sun-rounds, moon-months; binding books of hours, engraving calendars of days in brazen chains, 'neath weights and winding-keys, in unrelenting gloom.

Titan clocks toll time: batter into pieces by unrelenting peel and beat, the clamoring of awful bells. No duration, no span but does endure obdurate iron gears, machineries of mikkary, of misery and malice, ruling rueful day.

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