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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
Page 152
Apples
The Unfinished Dream of Orchard Hollow
In the village of Orchard Hollow, where the grass grew with a memory of footsteps and the trees whispered in dialects older than language, two harvesters moved through the garden with ritual precision. One climbed the ladder not merely to reach apples, but to consult the canopy’s council; those elder branches that remembered the first planting. The other wielded a pole like a scepter, nudging fruit from its throne with the solemnity of a priest dislodging prophecy.