Literature
Witches, Boys, and Other Monsters
Chapter 1 -
A Knock at the Door : Eliza
There were half a million people in the city of Greatwen.
Five lived in the palace along the banks of the River Tembus.
Forty-four lived in spark workshops, found wherever the city was thriving.
Two thousand were cloistered away, in churches and the spiraling towers of the cathedral.
Two hundred thousand lived on bustling streets, in townhomes, and brick apartments built with the reforging of industry.
And the rest, well the rest, lived wherever they could…
There were half a million people in the city of Greatwen, and Eliza Scaggs didn’t trust a single one.
She came out of her laboratory covered in soot, tracking it across the white tile of her kitchen floor, but she didn’t care. She was exhausted, and all she wanted was to sit down with a nice cup of rot brew tea. Partially, because she was fond of warm drinks, but mostly, because it contained a powerful stimulant, one to which she now found herself addicted, and she
