Sedimented Radiance

Fine lines spiderweb across the millstone's surface, visible when dust settles and sunlight angles low. These aren't flaws, however, but dense rings mirroring past compressions within the clay—each band a record of weight borne and grain ground to flour. The stone accumulates these stresses; each action leaves its imprint as varying resistance, radiating outward through subsequent turns. It becomes less a tool for transformation than a history held in material form, silently documenting every exchange at an increasing cost with each revolution.