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“When people build things worth waking up for, no,” he answered. “When the world forgets how to be moved, perhaps.”

“Will it ever stop?” she asked.

Mira thought of the child’s laugh, the courier’s practiced smile, the city’s small gears clicking. She thought about things she had kept shut inside herself: the names she’d never spoken to her father, the recipes she’d stopped writing down, the nights she’d let pass unmarked. Turning the key had been easy; letting the change out to meet the world had been the hard part. She picked the key up again, weighing it like a decision. winthruster key