engine room · 09 · recently used
a hand pump
the handle has been moved within the last hour: there is still a wet patch on the floor with the shape of an unsteady moon. someone drew water and went away with it.
the pump connects, by paths only the building remembers, to the cistern. above it: the scullery. below it: nothing in particular.
field-note · the grip is iron-cold at the top, palm-warm at the middle.