Etched Strata
Steel scrapes against temple bone with a rhythmic grit, prying loose a calcified chip until it snaps free. As the fragment detaches, amber light spills across the examination walls, projecting fractured scenes of a private childhood into jagged luminance. Held within these beams, motes of dust dance through the sudden glare like scattered memories. This overlap leaves only a quiet stillness where one layer of history settles firmly atop another.