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Ascended, Not Forgotten

Author: Tyson Roy
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-26 17:43:32

The most powerful rulers leave no footprints.

They leave seeds.

And Elara left the forest.

It began with a quiet that was not emptiness, but fulfillment, a hush so gentle it felt like the world itself had exhaled, satisfied. The sun rose on the first day of the Blooming Moon, painting Sanctum’s towers in golden mist, the Gathering Tree a silhouette of tangled hope and memory. Birds wove slow circles overhead. Wind braided through the grass and between the stones where, hours before, Elara Moonstone had stood. No guards saw her leave. No councillor signed her passage. Not a soul in the city could say when she was last seen.

Yet everyone felt it.

She was gone.

No fanfare, no spectacle. Only a folded gray cloak, threadbare at the edges, marked with old ash, was left at the foot of the Gathering Tree. Beneath it, a single line etched into the stone in the graceful script of one who had written prophecies and children’s bedtime stories alike:

You no longer need me.

It was neither an abdica
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