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Chapter 128 – The Thread That Survived

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Darkness didn’t lift. It peeled away. Like burned parchment, Kael awoke on cold stone, the golden thread wrapped tight around his fingers. Only one thread. Only gold.

He sat up slowly, the weight of silence pressing into his chest. The forest was gone. The rift sealed. The sky a blank sheet of gray. And she, The child. Gone.

He clutched the thread harder until his knuckles turned white.

“You chose,” whispered the wind.

“Or were chosen.”

Kael stumbled to his feet, numb, His body ached, not from battle, but from absence, The kind of ache that couldn’t be healed, He staggered through the empty world, There were no trees.

No stars.

Just ruins of memory carved in half-formed shapes, half a cradle, half a crown, half a home, In the distance, a shimmer of gold drew him onward, He didn’t know why he walked. Only that he had to, Each step was a betrayal.

Each breath carried the name he could no longer speak, Her name was never written, She had never existed.

At the heart of the emptiness stood
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