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High above the Haloth Desert floats Aerashar, a city sustained not by machines but by belief. Every whispered prayer, every confession, every lullaby for the dead becomes the breath that holds it aloft. Its streets hum with hymnstone and light, its people trade in words as though each syllable were an act of survival. When the first cracks appear beneath its golden avenues, Sefra, a young archivist with ink-scars on her wrists, is tasked to record every remaining prayer.

A Garden Made of Time is a lyrical fable about a valley where time is soil and a solitary Gardener plants “hourseeds” so the world can keep its rhythm. When a woman arrives by a river that carries centuries, pleading to recover a year she has somehow lost, the Gardener offers a lesson: hours can be tended—but never owned. Together they walk sundial paths, watch hourglass trees send sand upward, and visit an orchard where moments frozen at their sweetest slowly turn cruel.