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The Chain of Thrones

Author: Tyson Roy
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-31 17:31:19

The altar isn’t grand.

It’s quiet.

Low to the ground. Ancient. A block of cracked black stone, veined with molten rune-light that pulses not with heat, but heartbeat, faint and deliberate. A slow rhythm, like a memory taking its first breath after centuries of silence.

No gold. No ornaments. No stained glass or hymnals.

Only a single object rests atop the altar.

The Chain of Thrones.

A coil of obsidian links, each one carved with a single forgotten name. Some whisper red, others bleed slow drifts of pale dust. Each name once belonged to a woman who bore flame in her chest and weight in her crown. A queen. A curse. A story half-told. All bound to silence by the link before it.

Now,

One link remains open.

Waiting.

For her.

Seren approaches slowly, breath shallow, feet silent.

The air buzzes around her like the final note of a song unplayed. Her limbs are light, her stomach stone. She can feel the god behind her. Not watching. Listening.

“You may leave,” it offers, voice like a stone gat
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