Undertow Curl cotton and profoundly arcane

and profoundly arcane

Every crack in its surface tells the tale of transformation—how something once molten and fleeting can harden into a lasting force

had been forgotten on a shelf in a dim workshop for nearly a century

Three fragments of a bond between equals

placing a document on the table with more force than necessary

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