A woman sat behind the table, her fingers moving rhythmically with a small carving knife. She didn't look up immediately; she was focused on the curve of a wooden spoon, shaving away a sliver of timber that looked as thin as a dragonfly’s wing. "Is this walnut?" Elias asked, his voice low.
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Maya nodded, her eyes kind. "You could. And they would all be identical. They would be born from a machine that doesn't know the difference between walnut and plastic. But this spoon? It knows the tree it came from. It knows the three days I spent listening to the wood to find where the curve wanted to be." A woman sat behind the table, her fingers
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