
MATERIA
The beginning. Raw matter, before the wound.
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FLOSCULUS SANGUINIS
It kept its colour.
STRATUM
Layers no one asked about.
COR
The first wound.
Where every piece begins
Before the cut, before the polish, silver in its first language. Matter that still remembers the hand.

IMPRESSIO
What time agreed to keep.
COR FRACTUM
Every wound after.
FISSURA
Wound worn at the wrist.
CUMULUS SANGUINIS
Nine, never released.
DEVOTIO SANGUINIS
What the throat cannot say.
CORTEX
The layer that protected.
ANULUS SANGUINIS
What circles back.
TORQUES
The chain chosen.
CAVUM
What burned, still standing.
COPULA
Silence between two beats.
PLAGA
The scar called beautiful.
RUPTUM
The day it broke open.
INCISIO
The line that stayed.
LAPIS
Patience, unspoken.
STIGMA
The mark worn on purpose.
TACTUM
Memory through skin.
RUINA
What fell into place.
GRANUM SANGUINIS
A single seed of red.
KLUSTER SANGUINIS
Seven kept fragments.