The transition was unlike any other. There was no "Zipping" sound, no "Genre-Flip" vertigo, and no "Hard-Format" pain. Instead, there was a terrifying, absolute Stillness.Nora opened her eyes to a world that was perfectly white—not the white of a blank page, but the white of an Infinite Gallery. They stood on a floor of polished obsidian that reflected the stars of a billion failed stories. Kael was there, his umbrella heavy in his hand; Leo was there, his silver hair still shimmering but his eyes wide with a child’s true fear; and Mia was there, her floral apron a bizarre splash of color against the void.They were standing in the center of a circular dais. Surrounding them, seated in tiers that stretched into the high, cold reaches of the "Final Format," were The Fate-Weavers.They didn't look like Authors or Billionaires. They looked like Shadows with Glowing Eyes—the personification of every reader who had ever judged a character, every critic who had ever demanded a tragedy,
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