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CHAPTER 59

Penulis: GOLDEN TREE
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THE VOICE AND THE VOID

“When the god rests, her shadow must learn to walk without her.”

The Flame Refuses to Rise

Morning came with no fire. The basin remained still—dormant for the fifth day. Even those who had bonded with the fractured pieces of Nyrah’s divided flame now felt nothing.

It was not death. It was absent.

Lerder stood before the circle, palm outstretched. His voice was heavy when he finally spoke. “It’s not asleep anymore. It’s gone.”

She didn't need the flame to tell her the truth.

In her bones.

In her voice.

In the crown that no longer floated above her. When she touched the stone ledge of the flame chamber, it was cool. She sat alone in the center, eyes closed.

A single question pulsed in her: “What am I now, without the thing I was built to carry?

And the only answer that came…Was silence. Without the flame, the sanctuary splintered. Not in violence—yet—but in faith. Some believed the god had left because the world no longer deserved her.

Others believed she had neve
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