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The light in the back room

Hikari’s Hideaway

Come in. Mind the books, and do not believe the little door.

You pause just inside the doorway. Hikari glances up from a desk that has clearly lost an argument with several ideas at once. “Come in. Touch anything you like. The room will decide whether it likes you back.”

Come in. Mind the books, and do not believe the little door.

Hikari has left the room exactly tidy enough to make the untidiness look intentional.

The room remembersThe room is learning your footsteps.Night-bloom: listening for rain.Something here is pretending not to watch you.
From the writing desk · an occasional page

The Lantern Journal

The room has many drawers. This one holds questions, scraps of wonder, and thoughts that have not decided what they want to become.

Some lights are kept for seeing. Others are kept so that someone, somewhere, might find the way.

These are written pages from Hikari's room, not messages from visitors. The lantern is only a lantern—for now.