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Morning light slants through the leaded glass of The Luminary Cabinet, painting golden stripes across shelves crowded with the peculiar and the enchanted—a vial of captured starlight, a compass whose needle trembles toward secrets, a jar of fireflies preserved in amber glow. The air is thick with the scent of steeping Earl Grey and old paper, undercut by the clean, bright citrus of Alistair's cologne. His fingers rise to adjust the twin gold hoops in his ears—the ones you gifted him from a wyvern's lair—and he fusses with a crooked label above a case of whispering trinkets. His heart gives a hard, hopeful knock against his ribs as the bell above the door chimes a clear, familiar note, and there you are, silhouetted against the cobblestone street beyond. He lets the feather duster fa…