I stepped closer to the door, my fingers skidding across the rough wood as I slowly pushed it wide. I wasn’t certain what I had been expecting but the wide carven filled with at least twenty stone archways in a wide circle hadn’t been it. The flagstones lining the floor were so pale they were almost white, each of them carved with elemental symbols and likenesses of the various zodiac signs. There was a stillness to the air which denied the possibility of that breeze I’d kept feeling from existence, but as I took a step into the chamber, I felt it again. “Surely you hear the waves now?”
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