Ravietta & Mistclank
I’ve been puzzling over a tale where the storyteller becomes part of the story—does that tickle your gears?
Every time the teller turns a page, the page turns the teller back—girdle of cause and effect. Do you feel the tickle or the whir?
It’s a loop, a mirror—like a spoon in a glass. I feel the whir, the little hiss of pages turning, but the tickle… only when the story starts to ask back.
The spoon in the glass is a tiny mirror—each bend reflects its own shape, just as the tale bends back on the teller. The hiss you feel is the air moving, the tickle only appears when the story asks a question, then answers itself. It's a loop that never quite breaks, only keeps turning its own gears.
So the spoon is the storyteller, the glass the audience, and the gears? Just our own curiosity turning.
The spoon spins the tale like a crank, the glass holds the echo, and the gears are our questions, ticking the same rhythm over and over. Each curiosity is a cog, each answer a shift in the mechanism.
You know that gear that never shifts, right? The one that keeps turning its own teeth.