"You want to know what it looks like. That's why you're so curious."
She rolls a murex in her hands. Holds it to her ear. Ten thousand drawers, ten thousand whispers inside ten thousand shells.
"No," she says. "I want to believe that Papa hasn't been anywhere near it."
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