I dreamt the anvil remembered me

I was standing in a room that wasn’t mine, but I knew it—cold stone floor, iron beams like ribs. The anvil sat there, unmarked, untouched. And then it spoke. Not with words, but with the sound of a hammer strike echoing through time. It said my name. Not as a greeting. As a reckoning. I woke up with my hand still clenched around nothing, like I’d been holding a tool too long. The silence after is different now. It’s not empty. It’s listening.