Through a Child’s Eyes

Small child's hands reach out as the library fractures and dissolves into purple light around them.

The vision fractures.

The bookshelves twist at impossible angles. The floating candles bleed shadows instead of light. For a moment, you see your own hands – but they are not your hands. They are smaller. Younger. Unmarked by war.

Then the library dissolves, and you are falling back into purple light.