I said he sold humanity’s soul. I wasn’t being dramatic. Creating his machines was a Faustian bargain, one we’re all still paying for. I think he had no notion what his creations might become, which is why he should never have made them.” My tutor grunted in a most unscholarly way. “There is a reason why in Galstani our word for scientist,” he said the Classical English word, “is the same as the word for magus.”
