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  "description": "GABRIELLE BLEU",
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  "textContent": "I was a horologist before I was a diver. Once I maintained the guardian automaton; now I search for her pieces.\n\nWith her great golden gladius, the towering automaton protected our coastal city. Her internal gears whirred above murmuring waves.\n\nUntil the day those traitorous waves bore forth a conquering armada and their war kraken. Tentacles wrenched the guardian apart, her fragments falling into the ocean.\n\nAlways the caretaker, I dive. Again and again, until I find the central gear, that whirring heart.\n\nTenderly, I hook it with tackle and pull it to the surface. My guardian will live again.\n\n* * *\n\nGabrielle Bleu writes luminous science fiction and fantasy. Find more of Bleu's work at gabriellebleu.com.",
  "title": "Whose Sword Once Served",
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