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Mara hesitated only a moment. Her hand dove toward the wooden box on the screen and, absurdly, it met resistance as if the air itself had been packed tight with objects. Then one object jumped: the photograph of the girl on a pier. It slid into Mara’s palm as if the world had become a magnet. She stared at the picture—someone else’s smile caught mid-laugh, hair whipping in the wind, a horizon that belonged to a place she had never been—and felt a thread tug at the back of her ribs.