Clockwork continued

Here is the continuation of Anso’s story, in which Anso runs in to trouble with the church and has to flee. Also, I’m testing out a new WordPress client, Journler. Not sure if it’s going to work out, though. I’m looking for something that will make posting here a little easier, but so far nothing’s really sticking out as being ideal.
Anyway, here’s my story. This continues the ficlets thread starting from this point.

This beginning of a story was inspired pretty much by Charles Stross’ essay entitled 