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It flowers in his mind. It pushes against the back of his eyes. He grapples with it. He struggles against it, scrabbling against the cemetery and the air around him, until the strenuous darkness resolves into a concept. The thoughts align into words. He speaks them, like the golden tracery of the stars around that lump of dark:

 

“I will make a lens.”

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