I Want to Reach Deep Into the Hole

Even now, the story of Glasseye still haunts Stein in his dream, although he had long forgotten about the story itself. The different toys on each door appear periodically in his nightmare in twisted ways, but in the morning, he will only wake up in cold sweat and forget about them. He is far too busy developing himself and enriching his knowledge with intellectual books to dwell on such nightly phantasmagoria.

A year had passed, and his mental age now fits his physical one. On a month, he was ten, on a year, he was about in his late 20s.

A bright young man, known to be the butler of the renowned 29-year old scientist and inventor, Franklin Storitz. Who is still strangely a bachelor and never married despite his well-earning job and inherited wealth from his noble-aligned parents.

Stein had grown up to be an inventor himself. He likes making several contraptions and smithed a little bit, trying out different blueprints and testing out different machinery ideas.