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The Clockwork Heart

Lila’s fingers brushed the rusted hinge of the hidden door, and a whisper of oil and aged paper curled into the air. She’d found it—the workshop her father had vanished into three years ago. The lock snapped open with a…

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The Fractured Lens

The air smelled of antiseptic and metal. Her fingers brushed against the cold steel of the examination table. A flickering fluorescent light hummed above her, casting jagged shadows across the white walls. She had no name, no memory of how…

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The Chronos Paradox

Dr. Elara Voss had always preferred the hum of her lab’s oscillators to the chatter of people. The air smelled of ozone and old coffee, a scent she’d grown so accustomed to that it no longer registered. Her fingers trembled…

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The Temporal Scaffold

Dr. Lila Voss awoke to the scent of antiseptic and the hum of machinery, her fingers curling into the sterile sheet beneath her. The ceiling above was a featureless expanse of white, reflecting the cold glow of overhead lights. Her…

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The Chronos Paradox

Dr. Elara Voss adjusted the goggles over her eyes, the sterile hum of the lab filling her ears. The subject, a man named Kael, sat across from her, his fingers twitching against the steel table. His pupils dilated as she…

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The Echo Garden

## The Echo Garden The salt spray tasted like grief on Dr. Aris Thorne’s tongue. She traced the pitted bone of a clavicle, cool beneath her latex glove. Not just any clavicle. This one pulsed with a faint, internal emerald…

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