Chapter 87: The Pattern That Refuses to EndThe Bell Tower did not return to normal, because normal no longer existed.Instead, reality stabilized into something new, like broken glass forced into a shape that could still hold light without pretending it was ever whole again.The threads remained visible.Not as decoration.As structure.Evelyn could feel them even when she closed her eyes. Every breath carried traces of other lives now, not in a way that overwhelmed her, but in a way that refused isolation. The network the child had created continued to expand slowly, not violently, as if the universe itself was learning a different method of survival.Rowan flexed his fingers, still uneasy.“So we are basically a system now,” he said. “That is… not comforting.”Serah leaned against a broken pillar, watching the glowing lines.“It is either that or being erased,” she replied. “I will take ‘system’ over ‘nonexistent’ for now.”Elara, standing near the edge of the collapsed platform, w
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