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Chapter 154

Author: Sacred Heart
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The void did not answer in song. It answered in stillness. A deeper stillness than even the Fold knew—one that was not waiting, but watching. We had spent weeks weaving harmonies through the Spires, syncing Earth, Kainora, and Norell until their pulses beat as one. But that silence at the center of the glyph on my palm remained untouched. It was no longer a void to be filled. It was a threshold. Kaia said it best on the seventh convergence. “We’ve been trying to out-sing the fracture,” she murmured as we stood atop the Accord Spire. “But maybe the fracture isn’t meant to be healed. Maybe it’s a passage.” I looked at her. “Into what?” Her eyes gleamed with the firelight of Kainora. “The rest of the song.” Geralt appeared two nights later. He didn’t come through the bloomgates or the Fold. He didn’t even ripple the Earthpulse as he stepped into the Vault Grove. He simply arrived. Where the whispering trees once hummed with layered memory, there was now silence. And in the center of tha
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