Dancing Upon Argon Lights
The Purple lights of Argon Glow, illuminating the edge of one of the darkened bronze Great Gears of Timewell.
These gears stand multiple kilometers high and wide, they are the central figure head of the state, Shadowing the lands surrounding them in an never ending shadow. But it does give an opportunity if you can get high enough to have great look at the mountains in the distance and even the floating cities in the purple sky of the night and the white glow of moonlight washing over everything.
It ever ticks forward. Clunk, Clunk as it sits into its next sprocket, this would normally send a mild earthquake to the surrounding area but over the last few months the suspension and shock absorbers have gotten upgraded so it doesn't really shake any more.
On The edge of a stationary shelf wedged between the Argon and Xenon gear. Dances Ruly, A upper-class noble lady, She is of Dark Skin, with Krypton White hair, She is wearing a flowy laced up dress. with silver thread with a black Brunswick covering the Neon orange died linins of her said dress.
The Oxygen levels up here are not that high, so after every few minutes she has to pull out a small glass ampule filled with a purple glow. She Snaps the Top of the Ampule off with her thumb and sucks down the plasma, Her chest and sinuses start to glow purple.
This is Argon mixed with a gas called Aauria but often shortened to Aaur, it is then given an electrical charge making it glow. Usually the plasma wouldn't glow for long without a power source, but the Aaur acts as a sort of battery allowing the plasma not to revert back to gas for now, this can usually last a week between needing to be recharged.
As her Chest shifts purple, it glows through the dress as she continues to dance around up here, sucking in the atmosphere above the orange, blue and purple glowing city of Timewell below. The Blue lights of the Xenon gear clanks forward CLUNCH. It seems the gear hasn't been smoothen yet, and it Makes Ruly loose her balance, As she tumbles of the edge of this shelf.
"Must be Yanking my Crank" She mutters as she falls, "Damn it" As she falls quite quickly
She Starts to inhale and exhale hard and fast, part of panic, part to get the remaining Argon out of her lungs and as she does so the purple glow lessens. She then reaches in her small bag to grab a ampule filled with lavender light.
She Fumbles in the panic and Drops the tube, it starts to plummet below her "What did father say about base jumping, Tuck arms in tight to gain speed, then widen them to create surface area to slow your self down, and wait till the last moment to suck in the helium"
"I guess its time to put it into practice then" she laughs nervously
She tucks her arms in, but its tough as the clothes she is wearing isn't particular fitted for base jumping of the great gears, But slow and steady she gains distance on the Helium Ampule. She Reaches out her hand and it slips through her fingers, "Shift" She mutters, as it is now behind her.
She Flips over to face the sky and spreads her arms to slow her speed just enough to catch the ampule. She then flips back over to face the ground, and it is very much approaching quickly. "3" is about five hundred meters off, "2" is about three hundred and fifty meters off "1" she is one hundred meters off, she cracks open the ampule with her thumb and sucks down the Helium light, Her chest starts to glow lavender and her decent slow drastically like her body is getting yanked in the opposite direction.
Her Heart is racing faster then most gears spin. She Slowly and gently touches the ground, She collapse and lays on the black tiles and looks up and laughs.
After a Few minutes of letting the adrenaline settle and the helium glow to depreciate, she lifts herself of the ground and fixes her dress. She goes to the edge of the road that has small sections of Krypton imbedded into the road and the gutters, outlining where the cars and other vehicles travel.
She hails her palanquin . The small enclosed chair has small marbles filled with Helium imbedded into it, making the whole contraption lighter. The Automatons attached to either side, have their whirling gears speed up as the slowly lower the palanquin to allow her to climb in. Once She is in, the door clicks shut, as more gears spin into place. "Please take me to Church please" She asks.
With a clicking of the gears and ticking of the timing mechanism the palanquins starts to move to take Ruly to church.
The Automatons clockwork contraptions, made of gears, brass and glass, these are powered by small cores that are made of glass filled with Aaur, as mentioned before when mixed with noble gases it can store a charge for the plasma. but when it is by it self, it can act as a battery, giving off ultra violet light, not perceptible to the naked eye. These clockwork machines can also be augmented by having Aaurixed Nobel gases to gain more properties.
An hour later and Several kilometers traveled. The Palanquin grinds to a halt and is placed on the ground, Ruly shifts the curtain over to take a look outside. She thanks her automatons ands exits, She looks up at the Neon outlined Grand cathedral, it is made out of dark tile as most things are in Timewell, it appears to have columns with long tubes of neon going up the length that are attached to an overhanging façade with a clock face glowing argon, and it all leads to large dome on the roof of the building, with the edges covered in various colour of the Nobel gasses.
She steps into the This Building and a doormen lets her in. "Has service started?" She asks and the man replies "It starts in around five minutes your ladyship" he replies as he lets her through the door. Inside along the walls appears to be various gears and clockwork designs highlighted be Xenon lights. Further into the building in the grand hall, it has various seating and only one major light source, the giant clock that is underneath the dome of the ceiling, with its numbers written in letters, and the hands of the clock smoothly turning around, The clock it self is outlined in Neon, the Numbers in Xenon and The Hands In Krypton. giving the whole chamber a slightly whiteish yellow hue.
In front of her is a stage that has more elaborate Clockwork designs and a clock that isn't illumined what so ever. She looks around to find an empty seat upfront close to the stage, as that is where nobles sit, the peasants sit further back, even if it was more comfortable back there, edequate dictates, if she is wearing the nobles colors she sits with the nobles.
A Few minutes go by and a dark skinned man wearing Radon red robes walk out, he has long brown dreadlocks with glass marbles filled with all the colours of the Nobel gasses, weaved in them This is Ruly's Father, Creston Lightsong, he looks down at his daughter and gives her a gentle smile then looks back over the crowd with a more general and less intimate smile.
He walks to center stage and takes a deep breath in, "Welcome to Church my fellow clockwork souls, may the eternal clock ever tick your life forward" He preaches
"May the Eternal Clock ever tick forward" the crowd replies
"We gather apron this somber night, not for bad, but for the seldom good, as we sit hear we approach the zenith of our year, where the clock above strikes 12am on the 12th of Twalin our 12th month."
Ruly looks up, yanking her vision away from her father, "It does seem to appear it is nearing newmorning" she thinks to her self, distracting herself from what her father is saying.
"May this next year crank your gears forward and make you move forward, prosperous and fast, never looking behind you, shifting your focus on what is ahead." Creston continues to preach.
Ruly Drifts off again, She loves her father, she loves her faith and the eternal clock, for gears works, a mear hour ago she was on top of them, dancing apon argon lights of the great gears. She much prefers it up there then down here and that is the last thaught she has before newmorning service completes it self.
She gets up to excuse her self from the building, to go leave for home, to go back to the comfort of both her loving partners. As she leaves the building her palanquin is gone, but what is waiting for her is Thynal, He was Born of the lower-class, he is wearing simple cloths and has several metal rings imbedded in his arms. "Present Surprise Thy, but where is Prema?" She asks
"OH they will be fine? I think? they are just at home, I just wanted to walk you back, or is that frowned apon my lady" Thy jests as he bows as he reaches out his hand to take Ruly, but instead of kissing her hand like edequate dictates, he pulls her in close, hand around her neon orange dress and places a well deserved kiss on her chapped from sky diving lips.
"Your lips are awfully dry my gear heart" Thy mentions
"Yeah Funny story about that" She replies
As they both start walking home on this white night they joke and Ruly Explains the Accidental base jumping off of the Argon Gear and almost dying. He as lower born licks up the details, savoring every moment of them.
As they turn down the Street to where their house is on, it seems likes none of the lights are glowing. "They really need to get the wires fixed don't they" Thy Mutters.
"Yeah i agree"
"Don't worry i got this" Thy smirks as he reaches into his pouch and pulls out a small syringe with a bright green sloshing liquid inside. He places the tip into one of the metal rings on his arm and presses down, injecting the liquid into his blood stream. This is Aaurixed Phosphorus, where this time the Aaur is condensed into a liquid and mixed with phosphor.
The Glowing green energy lights up the vein that the inlet is attached too and traces back to his heart then back to the arm, where it all starts to glow green. He snaps his fingers and a small piecing white flame is produced lighting their way. Ruly gets in close and hold on to her partner as they walk the remaining way home by his Phosphorus flame.