He levered the back panel off the artifact on his workbench
and peered at its inner workings.
"A
Chipper would see what I'm doing as sacrilege. An effort to pry into secrets
the Makers never meant us to know."
He withdrew
several gears and wrote down their sizes and number of teeth.
"But
why would They give us all these things, unless They wanted us to use
them?"
He polished
the gears and fastened them onto his latest invention. He wound the mainspring.
"We do
the Makers' work when we create."
His
creation smiled and nodded her head in agreement.
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