Tomas lingered; he had the stubborn curiosity of someone who wanted to measure everything. “Did you meet them properly?” he asked Marla.
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When Marla took her turn, she expected a neat revelation—a face, a memory, an image she could place in a column in her notebook. Instead, she felt a warmth at her sternum, as if someone had laid a palm over her heart. She found herself thinking of a childhood library she’d only half-remembered: the smell of paste and the scuffed edges of spines, a boy who’d taught her to read weather maps for fun. No voice spoke the boy’s name; it was simply a soft, insistent possibility. She left the machine with an ache that felt like both promise and warning. Tomas lingered; he had the stubborn curiosity of