# to glance upon a pasty starlit tide by knell woodly the year is 1753 and lucinda leone ii dreams of escaping the perfectly safe walled city they're the youngest daughter of a wealthy shipping magnate and has absolutely nothing to worry about lucinda spends endless cool ambient days learning to sail with ir best robotic friend samuel pearlington these secrete afternoons on the water soon change when they rescues morgan de chatelain son of a wealthy owner of a factory that churns out bourgeois middling class young adult fantasy novels by the ton meanwhile working class researcher of 'big science' mr henry 'swain' swanson looks on at such plot descriptions with crushing low key disdain silently and intensely ponders how precisely to reduce such a sanitised safe and soul draining ontological worldview to ashes // republic of bob