Compelled, Jun returned to the cliff and found footprints leading down to a wash of rocks where the sea had reclaimed a stretch of lane. There, half-buried in sand, lay a battered Blu-ray case with the same stitched title—the printed art a collage of faces, hands, and that spiral knot. When Jun lifted it, the wind seemed to swear. He heard children singing beneath the roar of the waves, a lullaby backwards and sweet.

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