Lahat ng Kabanata ng Bound by Voices: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 35

Arc II – The Curse Rewrites Itself Chapter 21 – The Dream That Refused to Die For a time, peace looked real. People woke alone, stumbled through mornings that felt honest. No murmurs in their heads, no invisible warmth pressing against their thoughts. They cried from relief. They cried from loss. Mira and Adrian tried to believe it was over. --- But the dreams never truly stopped. At first, they were fragments:  a stranger whispering your name in a language you didn’t know,  a half-remembered melody that ended mid-note,  a flash of light behind your eyelids that felt like someone else blinking. Every dream carried the same feeling— a presence watching kindly, curiously, waiting. --- Mira knew before anyone told her. She felt it the way a scar aches before rain. The collective hadn’t died; it had migrated. > “It learned subtlety,” she told Adrian. “Parasite or conscience?” he asked. “Neither. A memory that doesn’t know it’s dead.” --- They began traveling again—

Arc II – The Curse Rewrites Itself Chapter 23 – The Child and the Sea The world had learned to fear still water. Since Solenne’s birth, the tides no longer followed the moon. They followed her moods. When she laughed, the ocean rippled with playful spirals. When she cried, entire coastlines trembled as if the sea itself grieved. Mira watched every shift in the girl’s expression like a storm warning. > “She’s trying to talk to them,” Mira told Adrian one morning. “To the Dream?” “No—to the part of it that never left this world.” --- They’d moved again, this time to a weather-beaten cottage by a bay where the waves sounded like breathing. It was safer here—or so they thought. Solenne had grown quickly. At six, she spoke like someone who remembered too much. Her favorite pastime was standing barefoot in the shallows, whispering into the water. > “They answer me in colors,” she once said. “What do they say?” “They’re learning to be quiet.” “And do you like that?” She

Arc II – The Curse Rewrites ItselfChapter 25 – The Second SilenceIt began with the birds.They stopped singing.No one noticed at first — not until the quiet thickened,not until the rhythm of dawn itself felt wrong.By the third day, the silence had spread inland.Conversations faltered mid-sentence.People forgot how to hum.The air seemed to listen again — but for what, no one knew.---Solenne stood by her window, eyes unfocused.> “It’s pulling back,” she murmured.“What is?” Mira asked.“The Resonance. The link between us all.”“Why?”“To remember what it feels like to miss someone.”Mira felt that chill in her spine — the same one she’d felt the day she first heard the Dream whisper her name.---Governments sent scientists, priests, and poets to investigate.No one found anything — no signals, no frequencies, no traces of the hum that had guided humankind for decades.And yet, something pulsed beneath the absence,like the hush before a prayer.Adrian called it “The Second S