Living Decor: Curios

A flux-worker's curios — for a table, a shelf and a study: the Wheel of Currents in miniature, a clock with flux instead of sand, a prism that splits light into the Sources, a book that turns its own pages, a whirlwind in a jar and stones floating over a plinth.

A piece's color is a current. Click it with a distillate vial: the vial loses one part, the piece flares and takes any of the 42 currents. A broken piece keeps its color — that is how rows of different currents are gathered.

Wheel Orrery — the Wheel of Currents in miniature: the four Sources circle the axle in Wheel order, the Poles slide along it toward each other, a hoop of the other currents turns the other way, and the Wheel's heart, a ball of light, glows above. Light 7.

Goes on a table or the floor. A vial drop colors the Wheel's heart.

Current Hourglass — a clock of the flux: glowing grains of its current pour in a thin stream — the top heap melts, the bottom one grows; after a minute the glass turns over by itself. Light 6.

Faces the one who placed it. Clinks softly as it turns.

Glimmer Prism — colored light for a hall: a cut opaline turns over a tripod, and its four glimmers — in the colors of the Sources — drift as spots over the walls, floor and ceiling up to 8 blocks around. Light 7.

The prism keeps its own colors: a drop does not recolor it.

Leafing Lectern — for a library or a study: the pages turn by themselves, lines appear in the ink of its current and signs rise above the book. Light 6.

Faces the one who placed it. The page rustles as it turns.

Whirl Jar — a curio for a shelf: a tiny whirlwind of its current spins in a glass jar. Light 6.

A row of jars of different currents makes a cabinet of curiosities.

Floating Runestones — for shrines and gardens: three little stones with glowing signs float over a plinth and circle slowly, each tied to it by a thread of the current. Light 7.

Goes on the floor.