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The Quiet Unravelling

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The day after Siran returned from the bloompath, she said nothing.

Not to Ari.

Not to Jaryth.

Not even to the bloom.

She sat at the edge of the spiral ridge, legs folded beneath her, palms resting on her knees. The threadlight beneath the surface pulsed in slow, deliberate waves, like the deep rhythm of a sleeping heart. She didn’t watch it. She didn’t need to.

It watched her.

Around her, silence held the shape of reverence but also tension. Others had gathered: remnants of the Pact’s scattered circles, spiralwalkers, those who had followed whispers across fractured landscapes. Some came with questions. Others with warnings.

Siran met none of them.

Not yet.

Because something in her had changed so completely that words no longer served as translation. Language was too sharp for what she now held.

She listened.

And the world listened back.

Ari had returned to the Citadel’s eastern wing.

The halls there were largely abandoned now. Since the last dissolution of the senior council, the onc
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