If the future is based on the acts of people, then perhaps you can knit the threads of fate.

Transform a willing creature into a walking, talking dish of food.

Three rings of entangled pearlescent stone, carved with words in an unknown language that tremble with improbable meaning.

Two things flow beneath the streets in rivers: sewage and information. It takes a discerning mind to tell one from the other.

A worn leatherbound tome. It feels comfortable and familiar in the hand, as if it were a childhood favorite. The pages, however, are blank.