I am afraid, however, that all I have known - that my story - will be forgotten. I am afraid for the world that is to come. Afraid that Alendi will fail. Afraid of a doom brought by the Deepness.
Until someone discovers your cache of tungsten carbide and sells it for scrap to be turned into ball bearings and drill bits.
The cap stones of the pyramids were taken for building construction. The rare velum paper with ancient Greek mathematics was bleached and used for daily prayers.
Perhaps the copper complaint survived because it was on worthless dry clay.
I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
Can steel really be trusted if it can be rusted?
“What’s a few words changed here and there among friends?” - Ruin, probably.
I am afraid, however, that all I have known - that my story - will be forgotten. I am afraid for the world that is to come. Afraid that Alendi will fail. Afraid of a doom brought by the Deepness.
I knew this was going to be top comment.
Metals oxidize. You need a ceramic encased in a carefully constructed glass.
Tungsten carbide in high-silica glass will probably outlast humanity by a significant margin.
Depending on who you listen to, piss in the snow might outlast us after the next election.
If you live somewhere it still actually snows anyway.
Until someone discovers your cache of tungsten carbide and sells it for scrap to be turned into ball bearings and drill bits.
The cap stones of the pyramids were taken for building construction. The rare velum paper with ancient Greek mathematics was bleached and used for daily prayers.
Perhaps the copper complaint survived because it was on worthless dry clay.
Would papyrus sealed in clay jars in a cave high in the mountains above a dead sea be okay?
If you are lucky
It’s a reference to the Mistborn series of books.
Nah Ruin will change the ceramic
That’s a Mistborn reference isn’t it? That sentence seems familiar
It is