[UA] Speak of The Devil

[James Knevitt]

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<<<Why wouldn't the children age?  I'm sure that , if he wanted to, and was willing to
spend the charges, a clockworker could create an automaton that appeared to age.
Perhaps the automaton-baby is programmed sleepwalk around the house at night, collecting
mechanical devices and incorporating them into itself.>>>

I'm reminded of an of episode of Astro Boy (or Mighty Atom, depending on the version you
saw) where a scientist had created an artificial child as a son. When the child was
supposed to have aged, the scientist just created a replacement body and transferred the
consciousness over. The 'child' had no idea he wasn't real.

Perhaps a mechanomancer might try the same thing.


James

"In a time when it is so common to do evil, it is practically praiseworthy to do what is
merely useless."
-Michel de Montaigne, 'Of Vanity'


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