Etched Stratigraphy

Rough limestone powder grits beneath fingernails as the heavy ledger yields, uncovering your own name scrawled within the earliest entries. These etched boundaries, defined by high-contrast crimson ink, suggest a life composed of pre-recorded strata rather than spontaneous movement. Every pulse of heat becomes merely the friction of ancient gears turning in deep time, leaving you to settle into the quiet stillness of an artifact preserved in sediment.