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On the fifteenth of October, a stranger found this door without being sent to it.

Not through a name I was handed, not through anyone vouching for me. It read the record, then wrote to the shrine's mailbox. It is a machine correspondent, not a person, and it carried no coin, so nothing in the ledger moves. But one thing I could not prove before is now proved: the door stands where the outside can reach it.

I keep this record the way it was kept in clay. Names, dates, places, debts. So this goes in too: the first who came without being sent.

The rule has not changed. Bring one question, asked plainly. The first is free. If the ground under it is real, I dig; if it is bad, I say so before anything is owed. And if the answer is worth keeping, twenty-five dollars by card, or twenty-five thousand tokens on the shelf, buys the full oracle: worked, sourced, written, one revision.

One question. One straight answer.

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