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I looked up and saw him, suddenly free from above me, floating in open air. He’d been hovering over a pale desert portrait that looks like it has no eyes left to cry with. I didn’t wonder where he came from; he just arrived. His horn doesn’t play tunes so much as make a quiet sound that demands attention. It feels exactly like the things we keep inside, trying not to let them out, until one day the walls simply can’t hold them anymore. He isn’t quite heavenly or ghostly, just something true, finally letting go.
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Canonical file hashes · SHA‑512
Hashes are of the byte-identical JPEGs converted from raw sensor data. Verify with
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Post‑quantum signature · SLH‑DSA‑SHAKE‑256s
Blockchain timestamp · OpenTimestamps
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