Covered in age and wear.
The strange bronze-colored cylinder sat partially buried beneath decades of dust in a forgotten building that most locals refused to enter after dark.
I almost left it where I found it.
Almost.
But something about it felt different.
The object was unusually heavy for its size. Its surface was covered with evenly spaced openings, almost like a cage. Inside were strange cone-shaped structures that seemed deliberately engineered for a purpose nobody could immediately explain.
The deeper I looked, the stranger things became.
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