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“Leo,” the Aligner said, holding up a blueprint. “This ‘cube’ you drew looks like a lumpy potato.”

Leo stood at the gate, holding his bender’s stylus. The Unshaped stretched before him: an endless fog of potential, formless and silent. It was the saddest thing he’d ever seen. shape bender

Then, very quietly: “Can you teach me?” “Leo,” the Aligner said, holding up a blueprint

And that was the day Ortho grew its first park. It had no straight lines. No right angles. It had a lumpy bench, a crooked pond, and a path that wandered because it felt like it. The citizens came to sit in the beautiful mess of it all. ” the Aligner said

His boss, the Aligner, found Leo’s desk one morning.