Cold light grazes the edge of a sleepless world, thin as foil yet heavy as a promise. Currents under the surface twitch and snag, like threads pulling through wet clay, refusing to lie flat. Metal-scented air tightens in the chest, while signals flicker like minnows in tar, quick and luminous, never quite caught. Somewhere a ledger inhales, numbers swelling with frost, then exhaling into vapor that doesn’t drift so much as crystallize midair. The horizon feels engineered, bolted and riveted, yet the bolts are made of rain and the rivets are made of echo. Green fire stains the upper dark, a soft bruise of possibility, and for a beat the ground forgets its weight. Between breaths, everything tilts—then decides, for now, to stay almost still.
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