"The candle flickers, like a silent metronome," she said, her voice drifting like smoke over the edges of amber.
"How many stars must align," he wondered aloud, tracing patterns in the dust with his restless fingers. "Their alignment, a secret language only known to the ancients."
The wall clock ticked, a heartbeat beneath layers of fabric and time, unraveling the moments into whispers.
"Are we not all just echoes, repeated until the meaning fades?" a voice questioned from the shadowed corner.
"Indeed," replied another, "but in each echo lies a fragment of truth."
As the night deepened, the protocols of bant whispered through the leaves outside, a cryptic symphony.
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"The moon listens, a knowing sentinel in the vast sky," she murmured, as sleep beckoned softly.