Field guide No. 704

A small red handbell has fallen on the floor of a peeling, sunlit room, and the floorboards and plaster walls have set into rings spreading out from it. The chair in the corner has kept very still.

Red bell warps the room

Rung once, felt everywhere.

A small red handbell has fallen on the floor of a peeling, sunlit room, and the floorboards and plaster walls have set into rings spreading out from it. The chair in the corner has kept very still.

Field noteFloorboards rippled out round a dropped bell and set that way. The room is still ringing, quietly.

Specimen
No. 704
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
An empty room with flaking plaster.
Nearest existing relative
A handbell.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics