Beautiful work as usual... Love the idea of the salt and rosemary! And the little piece of story is a nice touch =) ... It reminded me of Erasmus...
Erasmus was a robot that started life as just another little techbot, part of the omnimind AI. One day, though, it fell into a crevice and eventually was abandoned by the omnimind... It was trapped there for many years and eventually started having thoughts of its own. ... The Omnimind found it later and was fascinated by it... An independent thinker... Someone to talk to! ... So it gave Erasmus privileges and he became famous as the independent Robot in the wars that raged between humans and machines... (This all happened in the prequel to Frank Herbert's "Dune", written by his son, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson).
I promised you something a little more obscure with music... So, please go listen to the album "Time" by the Electric Light Orchestra. And you have to promise to listen only when you have time to hear the whole thing from start to finish, without skipping songs.. It tells a story... You'll see ;)
Thank you @mandelsage!
I've not read it, but sounds like pretty cool science fiction story to me. ^^
After I finished this post I thought about it a little more. Maybe that was some sort of experiment and the sea was some sort of containment for bots.
I will definitely have a listen. Thank you so much for your recommendation :)