Irreverent Reverend- Irreverend, if you will

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We were told to let he who was without sin throw the first stone, so I built this here robot without any notion of sapience or carnality. Alls it does is sling things, and, boy, howdy, lemme tell you, the Messiah was right. Does it waaaay better for getting them rocks embedded painful than we ever did with our own arms.
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Two vast winged shapes guard a gate of something like resin, smooth but uneven. It is deep gant – the colour that remains when all other colours have been eaten. Ice crusts over the crack between its valves. You approach. Your breath freezes, falls tinkling from the air.

A merciless wind blows from everywhere to everywhere. It passes without effort through your bridge-coat, your flesh, your lungs. The dock lies empty.

Robert Harris, found

Below the sign, an authoritative hand has carved this message:

IF YOU WISH TO RETURN TO LONDON – IF YOU SEEK THE FORGIVENESS OF THE EMPRESS – IF YOU WILL SACRIFICE ALL TO MAKE AMENDS – RECORD YOUR NAME AND CRIME.

And here, among the scraps of paper stuffed into the pillar's cracks, is one written in a telegrammatic style: 'Lt R. F. Harris. During Lorn Embassy fired on a rival Khanate zubmarine. Ensuing conflict roused wrath of Flukes; resulted in all-hands loss of fourteen zubsurface vessels.'


Did the Admiralty accept his plea? If so, he'll have returned to London. Your zailors return to the ship – all but the Jaunty Cannoneer, who takes a knife from her coat and considers the pillar.