And then there was Leo.
The Aligner raised his hand to straighten the meadow into a flat plane—but he paused. A butterfly, wings asymmetrical and stunning, landed on his finger. It was the first living thing he’d ever touched that wasn’t drawn with a ruler. shape bender
His boss, the Aligner, found Leo’s desk one morning. And then there was Leo
In the pixel-perfect, grid-locked city of Ortho, everything had to be straight. Roads ran at perfect ninety-degree angles. Windows were exact squares. The clouds, citizens joked, had been trained to drift in perfect lines. The city’s greatest hero was the Aligner, a stern figure who could straighten any curve with a glance. wings asymmetrical and stunning