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Calixyne stands at the center of a carousel that has come to life in an abandoned amusement park at midnight. The wooden horses have shed their paint and grown real muscle and sinew beneath; they circle slowly, hooves striking sparks of blue-white light from the cracked wooden platform. She wears a ringmaster’s coat of deep burgundy velvet lined with living velvet moss that glows faintly green; a top hat adorned with a single enormous black opal sits tilted on her head. In her hand is a conductor’s baton made of twisted bone and silver filigree that trails wisps of dream-smoke. As the carousel turns, fragments of forgotten memories—laughter, first kisses, goodbyes—rise from the horses’ manes like steam and drift upward into the starry dark. Piercing blue eyes with gold and green flecks watch the slow revolution with an expression of tender melancholy.