[Entry VIII]
It is said the Sundrops were formed when the sun wept during its first eclipse. Each teardrop fell through sky and glass, cooling into color. Those who wear them see the world not as it is—but as it remembers being, when everything was still becoming light.
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Recovered from a sun-burnt page of an unnamed merchant’s record, dated in an era when light was still weighed in weight, not time.
> “Two drops of the sun, set in silver and tempered by wind. Acquired from a traveler who claimed they fell from the horizon itself.
Their hue burns even through shadow—red, white, blue, like sky and flame entwined.
The Dreamwalker offered three measures of moonwater and a handful of quiet for them.
Said he heard them hum at dawn.”
The handwriting shifts midway through, as if the scribe’s hand trembled. A faint scorch mark stains the lower margin, in the exact shape of a teardrop.
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Record preserved by perilpoet
Manifest the Sundrop Earrings here
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