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Visual description: A close-up of the certificate’s blue wax seal shows three narrow gold marks.
Narration: The witness mark was hers.
Visual description: Mira holds the certificate, which reads “DEATH CERTIFICATE”, “CENTRAL ARCHIVE · LUMEN”, “MIRA VALE”, and “STATUS: DECEASED”.
Narration: Mira Vale had agreed to vanish.
Narration: That was what the document meant.
Narration: She searched her memory for the moment her hand had made that promise.
Narration: There was no such moment.
Visual description: A brass clockwork bird with a blue lens hovers beside Mira as loose papers drift through the firelit ruins.
Narration: For a heartbeat, the paper knew more about Mira than Mira did.
