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Mira and the Glimmer of Time
It was early in the mist when the forest paused.
A sound, barely audible, broke the silence—not a scream, not a song. More like the sigh of a seed choosing to germinate. And from a clearing that shouldn't have existed, Mira stepped. Her feet touched the ground like dewdrops that couldn't decide whether to fall or fly.
Wherever she walked, nothing wilted—but some chose to simply pass away silently.
For Mira was not a healer in the usual sense. She didn't heal what was desired, but what was ready to die. She was young—in form. Her skin was like pale smoke, her hair ash-colored, as if the memory of a fire had taken root in it. There was a golden glow in her pupils, a quiet burning—the suggestion of stories never written, never dared. The animals didn't shun her.
The old trees bowed their branches when she spoke. And when the wind bore her name, it grew warm, even in the depths of winter. Some said she was born from a single flower whose ashes had fallen on sacred ground—a flower that had once seen the end of the world. Others said the Keeper—that ancient sentinel between moss and metal—had once wished for a child. Not of flesh, but of memory and hope. And Mira was that wish. One day, she was found kneeling at the edge of a crumbling tree trunk. Her hands rested on the rotten bark. No light, no movement. Only silence. Then—a trembling. From the rotten wood, a new shoot slowly grew. Not green, not brown—but silver. Like moonlight in form. Mira didn't smile. But the shoot continued to grow. And the forest breathed a sigh of relief. The Keeper didn't appear until sunset. She didn't speak, but he nodded—as if he understood what she had never spoken. "What you touch," he said softly, "doesn't forget its transgression—but it is borne more easily." And Mira looked at him, her eyes full of unborn worlds.
Then she disappeared back into the clearing, which only existed when one wasn't looking for it.