What becomes of Absolem?

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A vitric carapace, pendulous and quiescent, highly fracturable in its suspended animation. Translucent betwixt flanks of swarf.

Absolem empowers Alice with the knowledge and means to command her future state of being. But what eclose for Absolem? Into what state do his imaginal cells transform – to beauteous salubrity, replendant in the light of day, or to a ghostly shadow, flickering intermittently amongst shadows, a spectre dancing in starlight?

 

Glass was slumped over a plaster cast of a torso, and then positioned in front of the grindstone. Water thrown from the grindstone kept a channel down the middle clear, whilst swarf accumulated down the sides where the water flow was less.