"Where light settles"—the phrase rolled through her mind until she caught sight of the bulb in the attic photo of her grandfather’s house. He’d always kept a certain brass lamp on the sill, a lamp he’d said held the best light in the room. She remembered, too, the brass key she once found tucked inside that lamp when she was eight—a tiny thing with a heart-shaped bow that she'd kept in a shoebox for years until it disappeared. She dug through drawers until she found the shoebox. The key was not there; the shoebox contained only a paper crane and a dried clover.
"Are these not memories?" Mara asked.