Caption from The Sky is Falling

Wanted to share a short caption from one of the chapters of my book, The Sky is Falling.

"...For me, the only object that held great magic was my grandfather’s tea cabinet. Inside, teacups and saucers lined the mirrored shelves like isolated vessels floating on an icy ocean. They reminded me of the story of Chuong Tri, the hideous musician who loved a princess and died of a broken heart. And because his love was unrequited, his heart hardened into a stone and was made into a teacup. When tea was poured inside this cup, you could see the musician's face in the reflection of the liquid, or so the story goes. I thought that my grandfather’s cabinet held a secret just like the Chuong Tri’s teacup. Because every surface inside was mirrored, it seemed as if there were endless objects behind glass doors that could never be reached. There appeared to be another parlor behind the one we were living in. Everything placed inside that cabinet was made precious and suddenly had multiple selves..."