Steel scrapes against limestone, sending a gritty vibration through clenched knuckles as dried sediment falls away. Beneath this crust lies an interlocking mesh of fossilized imprints, geometric and starkly defined by heavy granite pressure. Such clarity betrays what was once thought to be solid; the revealed pattern suggests that being is not a static core but a sequence of edges emerging from debris. Once the habitual layers are done with their work, only this rhythmic subsurface texture remains.
