Decomposition of Mechanical Objects

Harmonics B

A song sung with smiling lips can turn a hammer of death into a puddle of spoons. When the angry-man raised his gun, he did not anticipate the chorus line that loosened its lever and shaft into butterscotch candy.

The Hailai speak to their machines in two ways: through brains and through bones. With one frequency, they ask their gizmos to immortalize an idea, send a message, take a direction. With another pitch, the Hailai dissolve mechanical bones back into the great circle of stuff.

He whistled for his floogradoo to take him to the hall of his grandmothers on the far side of the moon. It would be their final journey together.