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Ballroom Common Room 1

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Twenty-five floors.
This is where some of them are still deciding.

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Volume I: Sun


Chapter 1 – 8

    1- Unlit
    The button at the bottom has never lit. Someone has touched it more than the rest.

    2- The Floors
    Not every floor keeps its order the same way.

    3- Another Me
    A boy lifted from the cold. A question is asked before his eyes open.

    4- This Pattern
    The panel has rules. Someone has started to read them. 🔑

    5- Five Hundred
    It arrives without explanation. Each floor decides what that means.

    6- The Recorded
    Some floors need nothing. One writes down everything.

    7- The Slot
    A narrow opening in the wall. A string. A question dropped into the dark.

    8- The Door
    The building allowed one secret, and she stepped throught it.

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Volume II: Stars


Chapter 9 – 21

    9- Outside
    The questions changed. The answers did not.

    10- Anchor
    Someone came down to ask a question. The answer was exact, and it was enough. 🗝️

    11- Watcher
    No one asked. So no one was told.

    12- Unshown
    Everything checked out. Not everything was checked.

    13- Thread
    One answer arrives that nobody asked for.

    14- Fixtures
    The building never changes. The people inside do. He begins to notice why.

    15- Timing
    Being early is its own kind of mistake.

    16- The Record
    Half the building has never been heard from.

    17- Knock
    A voice speaks first, before anything else does.

    18- Use
    Whats left behind gets put to a different use.

    19- Bearing
    The test was never really about the floor.

    20- Stuck
    He wants to reach the bottom.

    21- Habit
    It wasn’t Monday anymore.

    21- Enough
    Not everything. Enough.

    23- Ballroom
    He found it. It was simply there.


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