On the night the sea forgot its name, an old tram made an extra loop through the quiet city.
No one remembered asking for it. The drivers whispered about it and passed a small brass token between them — it had a tiny compass engraved on it, but the north was rubbed away.

In a narrow shop between a closed bakery and a shuttered tailor, a man who called himself the mapmaker worked on strange maps. His maps changed every time someone blinked.
He sold maps of forgotten places — doors that led to other doors, streets that vanished, trains that stopped for no reason.
He never left the shop after midnight. Some said he was waiting for a city that would come back one day.

“I do not draw paths,” he told a curious child. “I only show the places the world forgot to notice.”

One rainy evening, a young woman entered the shop with a suitcase full of old letters.
She asked the mapmaker for directions to the place where lost promises are kept.
He gave her a strange map, full of glowing lines that seemed to hum softly.

At the center of the map was a tiny mark — not a cross, not a star — but something shaped like a broken clock hand, bent into a crescent.

“This mark moves every full moon,” said the mapmaker.
“It points to what you once left behind and forgot to keep.”

She took the map and left. That night, strange things started returning: lost umbrellas, forgotten smells from the bakery, and even an old letter she thought was gone forever.

Weeks later, the tram drivers found the brass token missing, replaced by a small rusted key.
No one knew what door it opened.
In his shop, the mapmaker kept a wooden box with an empty slot — maybe waiting for that key.
Sometimes, just before dawn, his window glowed like a lighthouse. The map inside kept changing, and the tiny mark — the broken clock hand — slowly pointed east.

People whispered:
Did the mark point to a place? A person? A memory?
No one ever knew.
But everyone agreed on one thing — if you used one of his maps to find what you lost, you could never see the city the same way again.

QUIZ

According to the story, what was the tiny mark at the center of the map most clearly described as?

(Hint: it was compared to something small and broken.)

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