The cube was warm as it left her hands. When Will unfastened the ribbon, a thin ribbon of light slipped out first, like a sigh. Beneath it lay an opal the size of a walnut, its surface a shallow ocean. Colors spilled and folded—amber, teal, a bruise of purple—then rearranged themselves into something like a map. A mark blinked at the edge: 07:28.

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