She brushed her fingers against the half-finished lantern 🏮, and the paper flared gold ✨. An image shimmered across its surface: her, standing at the ocean’s edge 🌊, reaching for someone unseen. Her breath caught. “What… what did it just show me?” The lantern maker’s eyes softened, as though they had always known her secret. “The truth of what your heart is longing for ❤️.”