Avy’s journalist heart thundered. “Why didn’t you tell anyone?”

For a long moment, she stared at the orbs. Her whole life had been about finding stories, distilling them into columns of print, moving on to the next. But here, in the amber silence of the mountain, she understood that some stories weren’t meant to end. They were meant to be lived inside.

“Doors have keys,” she whispered to herself. “And keys have doors.”

Inside, the mountain was hollow. And it was a library.

She looked at Eli. “What happens if I stay?”

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