Representative: Fantasy

It was very, very important to use the best representation you could make while doing representational magic, especially if you were trying to act against the force of nature, something strong enough to have become almost a god in its own right. It was rumored that in order to provide the cooling for the Queen's palace, the court devisor had spent three years constructing a clockwork scale of the universe, with a planet for the palace world and a tiny little miniature castle set in the very precisely measured location of it, all so that one could use an ice cube to cool the whole place. The ice cube, alas, was still necessary, which had become very critical during the ice shortage of '65. She didn't have a whole clockwork palace in the center of a clockwork universe, but then she was trying to do something significantly simpler. But still difficult. Instead of miniature planets in clockwork, she wrapped colored yarn around wooden balls to signify--


Inspiration: Cute yarn things!
Story potential: Low.
Notes: Not really a story idea, just a snippet from somewhere or other.