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The crow snapped its beak shut and collapsed into a flat sheet of black cardstock, exactly as it had started.

Then he reached Chapter Seven: The Recorder. The crow snapped its beak shut and collapsed

The PDF page was corrupted. Not in the usual pixelated way, but strangely. The text blurred when he scrolled, and the diagrams seemed to shift in his peripheral vision. He had to use the physical book. Carefully, he opened the brittle volume to Chapter Seven. Not in the usual pixelated way, but strangely

He traced the patterns onto fresh cardstock. As he cut, he hummed. The knife glided through the paper like butter. He folded the cams—seventeen of them, each the size of a fingernail—and glued them into a tight, spring-like column. When he turned the tiny brass crank on the crow’s back, the cams clicked. They were memorizing something. Carefully, he opened the brittle volume to Chapter Seven

He set the crow on the table and turned the crank. The paper gears whirred. The crow’s beak opened.