Catwalks of the Spindle House

The Haapavesi Spindle House runs through every storm, its steam-powered looms churning out coarse army wool beneath towering iron rafters. Boiler mechanic Oskari Lemmikalt likes the deafening clatter because it drowns out human conversation. But when a pressurized tallow line ruptures into a bone-ash sizing vat, the machinery spins something that was never on the production order. A spindled horror of boiled wool, tallow, and snapping drive-bands hauls itself into the overhead catwalks, hunting down the isolated night shift and sealing every fire hatch with taut, scalding thread. Armed with cutting shears and a steam-lance, Oskari must climb through the shuddering machinery to vent the central boiler before the mill becomes a slaughterhouse.