"Pocket watch with little gears inside. Telescope. Heard of this new uh...piano, I think. Supposed to be like the harpsicord. Haven't seen one for myself yet," Ed explains. He's still a few decades off from the Industrial Revolution, and according to history at least, won't live long enough to see the wonders it brings.

"A hazard now?" he hummed, wrinkling his nose. There was some talk of that now, but this was after countless years of touting the health benefits, so it seems strange to Ed that things could change so much. "Are you one of those people that are bothered?" he asks pointedly, lifting his chin.