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Third bell means turn left. Do not trade names with the mothkeeper.

STREET GRATE / #080706

ROOT MAP DESCENT / 17m below rain

Roots part like curtains.

The network is older than the street above. Chalk finds the softer stone, then remembers the way for you.

← mushroom toll unpaid

BOTTLE-GLASS CROSSING / specimen glow 03

Green shards hold last Tuesday's moon.

Step only where the brass bells are quiet. Wet footprints vanish here, but their rumors keep walking.

MOTH ARCHIVE / card M-11

Do not trade names.

Pinned wings annotate the dark. Each eye is a tiny lamp; each lamp is a door pretending to be an insect.

mothkeepersoot hymnleft bell

BORROWED KEY ALCOVE / return before dawn

Every key fits a silence.

The brass one opens a bowl. The bone one opens a warning sign. The mossy one opens only when ignored.

borrowed, not stolen
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THE DARK WELL NETWORK / final depth unknown

The route becomes a root.

At the center, the name glows like something found under a stone and politely left alive.