Who?

In the *Celestial Gear*’s gothic hall, lit by flickering luciferin lamps, the mantis-owl mage freezes mid-step. Its opal-scaled exoskeleton gleams in blues and greens, bronze gears ticking in a corset-like carapace. One sapphire eye burns wide, luminous as a moon; the other squints sadistically. A lopsided, ...