#WordWeavers 10. Share a description from your WIP that establishes atmosphere without explicitly naming the emotion.
Every surface that was not covered with bits of parchment, inkwells, quills, and writing knives was occupied by an instrument or machine that Ore could only guess the purpose of. He knew some were used to calculate the rising and setting of the planets and the locations of the fixed stars, others to calculate the times for the canonical hours when the bells called those in monastic orders to prayer.
Some of the instruments had, Ore believed, medical uses, though to his layman’s eye they resembled instruments of torture. Probes and speculums, forceps, lancets, and fleams, along with images on parchment and vellum showing the organs of the body along with the astrological correspondences of each. Yet Ore could not so much as guess what some of Matthias’s devices were intended to do.
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