[Platforms jostle out of City ground, emerging from earthquake tremors to create a stairway to heaven -- or, at least, a staircase of cement and dirty and stardust leading upwards towards a pair of "lungs".
Atropos's bluegreen lungs have specks of red and orange dotting them, and they are the remains of gaseous planets burning together; they are two gigantic clouds of methane, hydrogen, and oxygen and nitrogen glowing and swarming in ways that defy known chemistry. These clouds, when you enter them, provide an almost liquid feel -- as if the respective gases are poised to a degree just before liquidation, degrees that are unique to them.
Mermaid-like fish people swim within the gaseous masses, tridents and bone carved forks in hand. They're guarding something -- the entrance to Atropos's heart, which is located just behind the left lung. They sneer and shriek like intimidating guards might, but they don't seem to suffer any ill effects from the substance they swim within. If you want to enter that door, you'll have to sneak past these fishy Metamen.
The door to the heart itself is a literal door, encased in gold. The heart chamber is an exact replica of Lachesis's station that she had always lived within.]
JANUARY 13th
Atropos's bluegreen lungs have specks of red and orange dotting them, and they are the remains of gaseous planets burning together; they are two gigantic clouds of methane, hydrogen, and oxygen and nitrogen glowing and swarming in ways that defy known chemistry. These clouds, when you enter them, provide an almost liquid feel -- as if the respective gases are poised to a degree just before liquidation, degrees that are unique to them.
Mermaid-like fish people swim within the gaseous masses, tridents and bone carved forks in hand. They're guarding something -- the entrance to Atropos's heart, which is located just behind the left lung. They sneer and shriek like intimidating guards might, but they don't seem to suffer any ill effects from the substance they swim within. If you want to enter that door, you'll have to sneak past these fishy Metamen.
The door to the heart itself is a literal door, encased in gold. The heart chamber is an exact replica of Lachesis's station that she had always lived within.]