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Mara felt a sick twist in her stomach, as if someone had reached deep inside and up-ended memories. The carriage hummed like a throat. Outside the windows, landscapes unfurled not chronologically but thematically: a city of doors, each painted in colors you remembered from childhood walls; a forest of thresholds ringed by lantern-fish; a library without books, its stacks filled with sealed boxes and keys.