Iron and Alignment
Iron teeth bite into ochre grit, grinding against terracotta as pressure forces a jagged seam shut. Each heavy pull attempts to align fractured striations into an ordered sequence, mimicking the deliberate architecture of the network below. While these manual efforts strive to mend the rift, they only highlight how much has drifted from its original root. A single moment of quiet resolution settles when the clay finally holds, though the repaired fracture remains a permanent map of where things once broke.