A young woman in a dim stone cellar discovering a glowing carved stone lantern beneath a loose plank

I swept the cellar floor of Tidewatch Lighthouse, grumbling about dust motes and cobwebs, when my broom struck something hollow beneath a rotten plank. I pried it up. Below sat a lantern, not of glass and brass, but of pale stone carved with symbols that shimmered when I blinked. "Well," I whispered to the dark, "that's not where I left you."

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