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Locks.
The book lies open in your grasp, its pages crinkled and yellowed, edges frayed from countless fumbling fingers. Ink sketches of tumblers and wards crawl across the vellum, bolts twisting like rusted veins under magnified quill strokes. Faint metallic smudges mar the margins, carrying the chill tang of iron and oiled hinges, as diagrams reveal the subtle give of pins aligning in shadowed keyholes.