The Specular Tower, they call it, the Crystal Rose, an incredible structure covered with mirrors and said to reflect the desires or true nature back to the person perceiving it; so why, thinks Daniil, does he see a building folded out of its own blueprints? His working theories are that his studious nature allows him to see past the illusion to the reality of the Polyhedron, or that as an incomplete creation himself he is doomed to see beginnings with no end in sight.

As it turns out, the real magic of these mirrors is the way the stairs within swallow themselves down and down until he is once more on the exterior of that Klein bottle of a town, playing in the sand with children who won’t hear him.