"What he had done was pure science and mechanics - and necromancy, he regrettably had to admit." Levi, an alchemist and inventor, is trying to make the machine of all machines, which can produce gold and wheat out of nothingness. He is willing to get his machine to work at all costs. It is just that gods, the Luddites, and his little sister see things differently. Sigourney is going home. She would rather run to the edge of the world...