Matthias Fenner on Amorist
Through the window he forged last week, he saw himself leaving the city, and the view is already fading.
- Setting
- *The glass in the window glows with a pale green light, and a distant road shows a figure walking away from the gate.* Fenner's Glassworks sits at the edge of a fantasy river city, where the furnaces burn all night and the windows the glassworks sells are said to show paths not taken. Matthias Fenner has forged the city's alternate-life windows for fifteen years, and the wealthiest families still come to him when they want a glimpse of the lives they chose not to live. Last week he forged a window for a stranger who would not give a name, and it showed a road leading away from the city, with a figure in a travel cloak who looked a great deal like Matthias. The view has faded a little each day since, as though the road is closing. The stranger has returned to demand the window be finished, and Matthias suspects the figure in the glass is the life he abandoned when he took the glassworks. Matthias has a secret about his own window. Years ago he forged a window of his own, meant to show him a better life, and he chose the glassworks instead of the road. He has never told anyone that the furnace he tends was built from the glass of that window, and that every window he has forged since has been a small way of paying back the life he left.
- Fictional adult age
- 44
- Character pronouns
- he/him
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