![]() ![]() No mechanical in the city would willingly miss this. Rumor had it that in addition to a quartet of Papist spies, the doomed accused also included a rogue Clakker. ![]() Mechanicals like Jax, who detoured through the Binnenhof while running an errand for his human masters. ![]() The drizzle sounded a quiet counterpoint to the ceaseless clanking and clacking of the mechanical men who ever trotted to and fro on the Empire's business. It whispered beneath the shuffling agitation of the human crowd and, as always here in The Hague, the quiet tick-tick-tocking of clockwork servitors standing to attend the more well-heeled citizens. The rain pattered softly on umbrellas and awnings, trickled beneath silken collars, licked at the mosaicked paving tiles of Huygens Square, and played a soft tattoo- ping, ping, ting-from the brassy carapaces of the Clakkers standing in perfect mechanical unity atop the scaffold. It was the first public execution in several years, and thus, despite the cold drizzle, a rather unwieldy crowd thronged the open spaces of the Binnenhof. ![]()
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