Piston Craft Achievements — Lovely

Elara blinked, wiping grease onto her apron. "Achievements?"

Piston one extended. Then piston two. Then three. A slow, deliberate wave of copper limbs, curling like a waking cat. The glass cylinder glowed faintly pink. The motion was so gentle, so perfectly damped, that a dust mote settled on a piston head and did not even tremble. lovely piston craft achievements

"Done a thousand times, I'm sure," Joric said, turning the page. "But it must be witnessed. Next: " Elara blinked, wiping grease onto her apron

Joric stepped beside her. "You're releasing them." deliberate wave of copper limbs

She tuned their regulators. She adjusted their steam-bleed valves.