The Remembrance Music Box
This palm-sized music box is made of black walnut veined with silvery wood and fitted with tarnished brass hinges. Its lid bears an engraving of two hands almost touching across a field of tiny stars. A small oval of cloudy blue glass is set into the lid, though no image can be seen behind it. The winding key is shaped like a sleeping moth, and the mechanism inside contains no visible cylinder or pins. When the box plays, the glass briefly fogs from within, and a single pale note sometimes rings after the melody has ended.
Lore
Old mourning traditions claim that the box does not contain music at all, but an absence shaped like music. According to one legend, every melody it plays is the last private thought a dead soul gave to someone it could no longer reach. Other stories insist that the box was made to prove that love survives death, while its critics say it merely teaches the living to mistake echoes for answers.
History
The box first appeared in the estate of Merovin Vale, a renowned collector of memorial curiosities who vanished after receiving a melody associated with his own supposedly deceased sister. His servants found the box open on his desk, still playing, with a note beneath it reading, 'It knows where it is.' The music box has since passed through crypts, pawnshops, noble collections, and the hands of grieving adventurers. Every known owner eventually reported being followed by a polite stranger asking whether the box was 'ready to come home.'
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