#WordWeavers 11: Share a passage where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
Every surface that was not covered with bits of parchment, inkwells, quills, and writing knives was occupied by an instrument or machine ... Ore 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. He suspected some had been devised merely for entertainment in a quest to discover just how complex an instrument could be.
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