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// Glimpse: The Second 
// Story: Her Forest 
// by AliziaRoElier 
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Clockwork has a major ridiculous flaw. If even one piece is removed, the entire construct falls apart. Worse, if even one part is unaligned, the entire assembly can and will be damaged as the disturbance propagates through the system. All the complex beauty of a one part translating to another and another and another suddenly becomes impossible.

Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately for the Creator, its creation was not a clock. It was more complex. The creation could still operate. The balance of the world was still firmly in place. Still, it could feel it when one section shattered. Destabilized. Unfolded and cascaded failures and operational changes like a cancer. In one moment, its entire machine imploded in an attempt to stop the damage from continuing - exactly like it was designed to do.

It laboriously coaxed its creation from the ashes until it ran once again.

Everything changed.