Clear Glass House

A transparent-walled establishment in Clearline, built from crystal so pure you can see through the entire building from outside. Privacy is maintained by cleverly angled interior screens, but the effect is deliberate — in the Glass Expanse, hiding is considered poor form. The drinks are served in crystal vessels that make the liquor glow. Out in the Glass Expanse, this site is part of the network of prism-fields, shard-towns, and silica plateaus that surround Prism City. Light bends here in ways the Pattern cannot quite hold — the air sometimes refracts a scene from a different hour, and the Starving Silence forms where light has shattered the same way too many times in the same place. The Knowledge Fragmentation Principle was first formalised by Expanse philosophers a generation before the Luminous Fold accepted it.