The Cartographer’s Lament

Prologue

In the heart of a city that never quite existed, where shadows held

more secrets than the sun ever touched, there lived a man whose

purpose was to map the impossible. His name was Elias. To the

world, he was known as a cartographer, but those who truly

understood his craft knew that he was more than that-he was a

keeper of stories, a recorder of places that slipped between time, a

chronicler of what was never meant to be remembered.