Lake Lewisia #469

She was only assigned to clean and dismantle the machine for the weekend, but even that made people groan in shared frustration over the finicky machine and its endless days of unusable parts and ineffectual parameter adjustments. That new operator, the one from out of town, had gotten an instant reputation when they got the machine to run right for a whole week. So when her cleaning uncovered a tiny figurine of twigs and twine tucked into the undercarriage of the machine, she could only guess at who had put it there and why, and she could only return it to its hiding place and hope it kept working.

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LL#469