haji-kun

Preface… Ardent. Water dripped in through the grates of the city streets above. Rain leaked through, causing gears to turn as it pattered on their iron structure, and damped wood causing it to creak and bend. The world was alive with electricity, not from the lighting outside. But from the energy the iron gears would generate when turned. It was my job at one time to turn the gears. Nights of blood and sweat, naked and shimmering in the pale light as I was ordered to crank faster. To bring him more power to awaken his children. I would crank and crank the gears until I would pass out from exhaustion. Hot and depleted, I was then fed a