For hours she did not look back. When she finally turned, Janus was still there. The shop owner had placed it on his counter with a note: “For another pair of hands.” The twin lenses caught the reflection of her shoulder as she passed, and in that tiny mirrored world both CLOSED and OPEN overlapped into a single blurred glow.

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“You used to photograph everything,” he said. He had the soft distance of a man who had learned how to say sorry without asking for forgiveness.

“I stopped.” Mara’s lips were dry. “I started looking.”