When Elara woke, it was dawn. She was lying on the cold stones of the forgotten plaza, the obsidian key gone from her hand. But her chest was warm.
The room was infinite and intimate at the same time. Shelves stretched upward into darkness, each one lined not with books or boxes, but with moments . She saw them as glass vials, each one pulsing with a soft, internal light. Some were gold, some were gray, a few were the deep red of a bruise.
She followed the instructions scrawled on the back of the envelope: Go to the intersection of Sorrow and Memory. Wait for the third chime of midnight. Insert the key into the air.
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