Pêro halted before the embers burning on the old sections of the Fabrica Santa María azulejo floor. Ash swirled throughout the footprint of the burned down shop and out the now nonexistent roof. The beehive kiln was a black cave with a hole in its cone where a ceiling timber protruded. Pêro stared at the still half-full swaggar box nestled inside its cavity, a coffin put to rest in a mortuary. Broken finished and unfinished tiles, with wispy burn marks, lay in scattered piles on the floor. Glazes and slip bubbled in pools. Blocks of clay had hardened into adobe bricks. Sacks of silica had melted, forming twisted colors of dark greens and blacks, creating rocks of obsidian.
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