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changes the world. Each object’s story closed a loop
the Curator couldn’t predict. People brought the
evidence here because they were afraid they’d
forget.
Sera stood over the cracked mug without
touching it. “Who brought that?”
Someone who stopped pretending he didn’t
love noise, Jinji said, smiling into the wire. Or will.
Time’s a cheap trick down here.
Henry let himself breathe. The ache that had
pinned his chest since the river eased.
“The Mirror is trying to empty language,”
Carolina said. “We fill it by moving.”
Yes, Jinji said. And then we make the movement
contagious.
“How?” Sera asked.
By leaving this door open, Jinji said. By taking
the Spiral into the streets without writing it down.
By teaching people to count silently and then do
something true at thirteen.
Henry looked at the column of water, at the
objects, at the chalk waiting on the last plate. He
picked it up. The chamber felt him decide.
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