katabasis: (but at some point fortune abandoned me)
ƬƠƬƛԼԼƳ ƇƠƊЄƤЄƝƊЄƝƬ ƑԼƖƝƬ ([personal profile] katabasis) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2021-03-11 05:35 pm (UTC)

The two bells are identical and hang high enough that Holden can comfortably duck down into it to get an inspection of the inside as well as the outside.

Roughly three feet in diameter, the bell's exterior is a smooth and featureless black. However it's interior features a series of elaborate Ancient Tevene brass inlays. The inlays are patterned in such a way that the negative space creates a dragon-like shape which twists up to the peak of the bell. It terminates in a set of black jaws into which the bell's brass tongue is hooked.

The tongue itself is also etched. While to a cursory inspection it might merely appear patterned, a close study reveals that the etchings are of a multitude of human figures with their arms stretched imploringly upward towards the dragon.

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