"Payment," the barber said, extending a hand.
Elias stared at her, disoriented. He looked out the window. The wings of the plane cut through the clouds. He reached into his pocket, desperate for the yellow book, but found only his phone.
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Elias looked down at the book in his hands. The Foreigner Who Wept Cedar Tears.
He checked his phone. He refreshed weirdnippon.com.
He ran his fingers over the page. It was warm to the touch. He turned to the back cover. There, printed on the inside flap, was a URL.
Elias took the shinkansen and then a local bus that rattled up winding roads thick with mist. The town was silent. The library was a traditional wooden building, sliding doors and all. Inside, an elderly woman sat at a desk, stamping blank sheets of paper with a red seal.
Elias found it wedged between a pachinko parlor and a crowded yakitori stand. He descended a damp, narrow staircase until he emerged into a room that looked like the inside of a jewelry box. Mirrors covered every surface—floors, ceiling, walls.
He woke up with a jolt.
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