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Rituals that involved the reactors were old and lengthy for TalOS to commit to. Prayer and care all needed to be made lest Particep Semper become that little bit more restless. Such restlessness, when interacting with the Reactors, was dangerous as they could fully awaken the slumbering Machine Spirit.
Incense, the sweet smell of incense, went through his senses and embraced TalOS. To do something so menial and yet so grand, TalOS missed the days that he could do this. Those days had come to an end though. Now TalOS needed to delegate tasks for he was but a single man. Now delegation itself had its own rewards to his consciousness, but that was how TalOS’s mind was programmed. Here, it was TalOS’s way of life that gave him this pleasure.
For the prayer that TalOS was making, he was before the reactor for several hours reciting scripture and burning the incense. While this was lengthy, this was also mandatory for the Machine itself did not function without the prayer.
When singing a Canticle, many times there are not words that are spoken but something far closer to music. There was meaning within the music that the Mechanicum understood, no others however were able to tap into such an understanding.
In the middle of his verses, where there was no specific note to show it, TalOS felt something shift.
The clicking of a wire. TalOS felt it move as his connection to Particep Semper was the closest he was able to make it. Such things occasionally happened when one made these prayers as it was seen as the Machine repairing itself. But as TalOS said those notes he felt something flow through him.
It was understood that this was the Motive Force and that the Rituals that the Mechanicum brought to bear were to help the Machine Spirit organize this primal force. Things that advanced machines are able to do but need the prompting of man to encourage their operation. It is comparable to TalOS’s nanomachines, where they repair his body due to programming and not directly from the Motive Force.
Here though TalOS felt something go through him. And in that second he began to study those lyrics and notes to see what was there.
