The cabinet catalogue
The Reliquary
The collection is never quite arranged the same way twice. Six objects have been drawn from the cabinets for your examination.
The Grinning Face of Hollow Grove
The weathered wooden likeness of collector Silas Vane, still wearing the top hat the grove carved into him when it decided to begin a collection of its own.
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The Whispering Brush
An untarnished silver-backed hairbrush whose unbending bristles demand one hundred strokes and promise beauty without end.
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A pale clay urn bearing stolen symbols of the Fates and holding the final breath—and an echo of the soul—of the priestess Lyra.
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A baroque apothecary bubble jar framed in silver and sealed around black water drawn from the River Styx.
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Mr. Marrow, Gentleman at the Threshold
A remarkably talkative grinning skull who appointed himself to the Caravan's entrance and became its permanent greeter, rule-keeper, and unlikely guardian against what waits beyond the lanterns.
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An empty pavilion cage of dark carved wood from which a cricket's song may still be heard beneath the Mid-Autumn moon.
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