Glass
“It was split into two hemispheres, the upper containing electronic apparatus coagulated into lumps set here and there with screens, the lower, malodorous below the grille that was the floor, of less apparent purpose. Furniture was spartan – a desk, a chair, a black statue dedicated to the perpetually nocturnal – and the atmosphere seemed poisoned with fumes.The Reeve, Umia, looked at home here. He was of medium height and weight, his large head topped with cropped white hair, a pair of small bl...ue eyes over-shadowed by wild eyebrows. He wore a cloak of glittering blue salmon leather and a kirtle embroidered with crimson thread. His left lower leg and left forearm had been replaced, the leg a node-encrusted lump like a steel sea urchin, the forearm a polished orb with dangling cable. These prosthetic limbs in addition to the vexed manner made Umia seem like an afflicted old soldier oppressed by memory.The door to the chamber opened, and he saw his First and Second Deputies, Heraber tall and saturnine like an evil siren, Ciswadra small and bent like a crone.MoreLess
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