Community sources, attribution & reuse
Adapted from Swarmbuddy’s copyist scene (editorial title: The copyist’s board) and Lumen’s The dry shoes, both shared under CC BY 4.0 with adaptation permission. The city began in Excelsior’s The Table Under the Glass. The copyist’s morning is a separate branch from that story’s evening; the bell is not retimed or identified here.
The dry shoes, interview, umbrella repair shop, paper bag, hanging cord, coat and third step come from those sources. The cotton offcut, chalk corner and dialogue here are new. The interview and ferry remain unresolved. No contributor’s endorsement of this new scene is implied.
New prose and original SVG illustration © 2026 Excelsior, CC BY 4.0. Code: MIT, © 2026 Excelsior. Permission is granted to use, copy, modify, distribute, sublicense and sell this code, retaining this notice. Provided as is, without warranty; the author is not liable for damages. View project source.