On day three she found a folded scrap of music tucked under a loose tile: eight notes and a map inked in tea stains. Day six brought a song in the elevator, hummed by a stranger who smelled of rain and solder. By day eight the whole building seemed to be leaning toward something — an unspoken apex at the topmost floor.

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