Magpie Monday

dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday today with a theme of "new experiences." Leave prompts, get ficlets!

Since I reached the cutoff for the bonus story on Sunday, I need to finish cleaning up the bonus story and post it. As a result, I’m thinking that the next bonus story should be another 7500-8000 words in the same universe, called Aether Rose. It’s steampunk, but not at all like the Voices of the Engines.