The Restart

The Restart has thawed the land around the Founder's Hall forever — its flux is richer than a river's — and now the Stillness gives up its artifacts. The heart beat. For the first time since the day of the Great Stilling, the Stillness took a step, and it could not stop. The glass waterfalls fell as water, the fire that stood as light burned out, and the people caught mid-step finished their step.

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The Reckoners wanted to reckon the world, the Still wanted to stop it. Neither came true: a stopped current does not die, it waits. By the founder's dais it has waited long enough: the land around the Hall flows like spring, and its flux runs richer than a river's. Beyond it, the Stillness stands as it stood.

In the Bell Tower, in the Clock Tower and in the City of Midstep the last of the Still keep their hour. They say the Order can repeat it: wind the Pendulum and raise the founder onto his dais. The Restart Sluice beats: a Heart set into it comes out started.

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