"So what is this, really?" I started to ask, and the doctor jumped a little, startled by the break in silence. I rolled the device around in my hand, looking at the winding hands and dials inside of it. It really resembled clockwork, I thought, except that it seemed too small to be functional, and it was in the shape of a sphere instead of being a flat disc.

 

"You don't know how you got here? What, do you have amnesia or something?"