“a broken lullaby of forsaken dreams” is just too durn poignant for words.

The mystery of the objects has me hooked. In fact I can picture a book filled with vignettes showing how Girard came upon these items of paramount importance. This warrants a sequel, and hopefully you’ll see more to go on with this story.

I have a feeling “The” in the final sentence is intended to be “They.”

Thanks for the kind words and editing help, zxvasdf. You were right, and I changed it.