The Setting

It's basic English 101, a story needs a setting for the characters to interact in and with. For this story I present the setting:

It's a mess, analagous to some hypothetical post apocolyptic world where debris is strewn and the fractured beginings and ends of a hundred different projects are on display... right, it is a mess though. In fact, this is only one of the work benches, the rock cutting bench will be saved for a post on faceting. This is how I like to work though, it helps to be surounded by raw materials and stones, like putting a puzzle together - you have to see all the pieces to make something of it.