Thank you for commenting!
One thing that I have begun to realize recently is that there is a lot of clarity that I am forgetting to incorporate when wanting to tell information.
- For starters, I probably should've made clearer that this was set in AOF, and that the humans were part of the Vinci faction.
- I dropped some names about a Vinci scholar and academy who's mission was to be one with the automa they create (robots powered by the mindstone/gemstones), implying that the human with the mindstone "wife" had also bought in into this ideology. all of this was really obscure information from the vinci faction book that I shouldn't had brought in without explanation.
- In the ending, I had wanted to imply that Xochi was on a ritualistic walk up onto an "altar" where she too would be made into a golem (as was with the human, and with the chameleoon looking 'golem' Xochi saw), although it seems that it kinda just felt like she was going on an infinite walk upstairs.