The Cartographer's Lament

<p><strong>Prologue</strong></p><p>In the heart of a city that never quite existed where shadows held</p><p>more secrets than the sun ever touched there lived a man whose</p><p>purpose was to map the impossible. His name was Elias. To the</p><p>world he was known as a cartographer but those who truly</p><p>understood his craft knew that he was more than that-he was a</p><p>keeper of stories a recorder of places that slipped between time a</p><p>chronicler of what was never meant to be remembered.</p>