[ IP ] The Clockwork City

When I asked granny about the city, why it looked so odd, and who had made it, she told me a story. 
 
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 A long time ago, long before I was born, this world was not like it was now. 
 
 There were no people living here, it was a dead land. We used to live in the stars. This place was nothing but an anchor, my granny said, an anchor between the stars. 
 
 Then It came. Machines'' 
 
 What are machines granny? 
 
 `` I do n't know dear. But they were great and terrible things for our ancestors. My granny said that this world was all one great machine once. But no longer. 
 
 All the machines stopped working, and we were forced from the stars. We were left here on this planet, the world broken and jammed, and we rebuilt. 
 
 Of the few who ask, many dream of once again living in the stars. They describe their dreams with intensity, and follow their thoughts. 
 
 The machines still fail. 
 
 Nobody knows why. 
 

