A victim of abuse tries to use repressed memories to build a clockwork device.

Sally used to be a tomboy. At a very young age she threw away her dolls and dress-ups and started playing with her brother’s Lego. She loved building things and would use her vivid imagination to create bizarre and wonderful alien creatures.

When she was 6 her parents went on a cruise for 6 weeks and left Sally and her brother with her uncle who systematically abused them for the entire time.
Sally’s brother killed himself months later but Sally had managed to repress most of the memories. Her life from then on became a constant struggle but she was tough and managed to survive.

Ten years after the incident she made friends with a Mechanomancer who taught her his magicks. After making a few clockwork items with his assistance she decided to make one of her own. She was a clever girl but still didn’t fully understand the dangers of using magick, particularly the fact that magick doesn’t like people cheating…

Sally decided to feed her repressed memories of abuse into her machine, thinking that as she wasn’t really aware of them anyway it wouldn’t actually cost her anything.

Bad idea.

Her idea backfired on her in the worst way possible, instead of feeding the memories into her creation they were instead completely unlocked and flooded her mind in an instant. Everything she had managed to repress suddenly came back to her.

Sally now lives in a mental institution on constant suicide watch. She still screams at the sight of Lego.