Outside, the night learned to be quiet. I imagined a bus that never arrived, a temple with aflame candles burning without anyone to replace them, an alley where pigeons refused to mourn. The voice on the tape described rituals — not the glamorous kind but small, practiced economies: a pinch of salt on a threshold, a recording left in a pocket, a breath held until a clock lost faith and stopped. These were ways of bargaining for presence.
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