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Chapter 116: When Meaning Stops Needing a Path

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Chapter 116: When Meaning Stops Needing a Path

Something unexpected emerged from the collapse of sequence.

Not structure returning.

Not chaos expanding.

But meaning detaching itself from direction.

Inside the Bell Tower field, Evelyn felt it as a shift that did not belong to time, space, or even relational adjacency. It belonged to interpretation itself. For the first time in a long while, significance stopped depending on where something occurred, when it appeared, or what it was adjacent to.
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