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Particles of the Past — Chapter 5: Sediment of the Self

Black-and-white illustration of a vast, circular modern chamber with tiered balconies and a single shaft of light descending from above into an empty central space.

1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) The oldest part of Luminara wasn’t marked by age so much as by refusal. Above, the city evolved without nostalgia — glass, bio-ceramic, light, and adaptive stone. Below, under the places tourists still photographed and scholars still invoked, the foundations remained stubbornly literal. Not relics. Not monuments. Substructure. Zael followed Dr. Liora Lytton through a narrow passage …