Glass breathes a sea‑cold blue, the way a bottle fogs when the morning is hesitant. Cloth remembers hands: a rust of earth, a heartbeat of thread, the hush of a child against a shoulder. Ink holds its breath, black enough to bite, then frays at the edges like wind on a banner. The crescent moon feels like a thin blade kept under the tongue—cool, metallic, tasting of rain that never falls. Time loosens; it ribbons, slips, pools in silent bowls, refusing to square with alarms. Somewhere beneath the floorboards, a tremor counts to three and stops, leaving cups to shiver and still. Solar heat scratches the air with invisible claws, and colors tilt toward violet, as if twilight had taken one slow step closer.