Clara eventually took over the estate, continuing to age the batches, proving that in a world of the "new," there is a profound, shimmering beauty in the "mature."
Elias’s obsession was under threat. A global conglomerate, Neo-Fiber Corp , wanted to buy the estate to raze it and build a factory for "Instant-Silk," a cheap, disposable bio-plastic. They saw Elias’s Mature Nylon Land as a graveyard of obsolete chemistry.
In the heart of the district known as the "Synthetica Highlands," there was a place the locals called . It wasn't a theme park or a country, but a sprawling, mist-shrouded estate owned by Elias Thorne, a man who had dedicated forty years to the mastery of polymerized fibers.
