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“It’s not physical. It’s in his soul.” I thought as much... But unfortunately, that makes it more difficult to even do anything now. A whisper rides in the wind. I don’t know who speaks it first. Maybe one of the old fae who linger at the edges of the battlefield. Maybe one of the dying spirits. "The Hollow has taken him." My blood goes cold. The Hollow. It’s not death, not exactly. It’s the space between, a veil-thin plane where souls are neither here nor gone. Where time frays and memories decay. Where you forget who you are.

Then I hit a hollow so wide, it feels like the world forgot to finish it. At the center: a wound. Not bleeding—draining. Something used to be here. Something that took all the tension, all the leftover force, and sort of leveled it out. Now it’s gone. Something huge presses at the edge of the hollow. No face. No real thoughts. Just hunger—patient and endless. Not evil, just… not us. This is the debt, the silver whispers. I wake up gasping. Feels like that emptiness is stuck under my ribs.

I just mumble back to him. I'm not sure how long after he left I woke up fully, but the side he sleeps in is cold, so he must have left hours ago. Turning, I see the paper on the bed. I smile and reach for it. Turning it over, my eyes widen. The sketch shows a person with the centre of their body hollowed out and empty. There's no longer a heart there. I read the poem. Hollowed out Empty within Nothing lingers Nothing lives Cold spreads quickly

The pressure it carried weakened. The cold thinned. The emptiness cracked. It stepped forward again— And collapsed. Not violently. Not explosively. It simply… fell apart. Like a shadow losing its source of light. The others followed. One by one. Breaking. Dissolving. Fading into nothing. Silence fell over the Hollow. Real silence this time. No pressure. No presence. No watching. Gone. --- No one moved. No one spoke. Because we all felt it. Not relief.

“The Hollowed are closer than we thought.” I swallowed hard. “Is it Aria?” “I don’t know,” she said softly. “The Hollowed are masters of mimicry. They take the shape of familiarity, of comfort. That’s how they survive.” “So… how do I tell who’s real?” “You don’t,” she replied sadly. “Not until it’s too late.” She stood up, and just before fading away, she added: “Trust your heart, May. And watch who avoids your light.” –––

He really was speaking from the bottom of his heart… Why? Why did he have to wait until that moment? It was too late for that! My heart was already broken. Even if we managed to fix it, there would still be a hideous scar on it. My tears rolled down like rain, and the pain I had was mixed with hatred. I pushed him away like a lunatic, telling him to get lost. However, his body weakly fell to the ground, and I was stunned by what had happened so suddenly. I reached out my foot to kick him a little. "Stop playing dead. Yoel? Yoel!"

I gasped. The first bridge's face softened, something almost like relief crossing features that were mine and not mine at the same time. "There is a cost to finishing what I started," she said. "The Hollow will not simply sleep forever inside you out of gratitude. It will test you. It will look for every seam in every relationship you have, every unresolved grief, every love divided by distance or duty or fear, and it will press until something gives. That is its nature. That will always be its nature." "Then how do I stop it?" I demanded.

But the habit of caring about him hadn’t faded yet. “Almost there,” Fen said. “You keep saying that.” “I keep meaning it.” Then the trees opened up, and I stopped. The Hollow wasn’t what I expected. I’d pictured something gloomy, like the rest of the Growth, full of rot, murk, and things with strange eyes. But this was different. The trees here were old, older than anything I’d seen, with trunks as wide as houses and roots rising from the ground in arches tall enough to walk under. In the center was a pool, still and black, perfectly round, as if someone had pressed a coin into the earth. The air shivered with a faint hum, so low I felt it more than heard it, vibrating somewhere in my bones.

And the cairn-ring hums. Approval. The seven dead before me — six of whom went mad, one of whom is sleeping in a trench off Saragossa half-mad — are pleased that I have eaten. The pearl is pleased. The Hollow is pleased. The thing under the Hollow's floor — I feel it for the first time directly — pulses once, slow and considered. Even it is pleased. I am not pleased.

It echoed through the air like a hollow chant, a sound stripped of tenderness and filled instead with cold, unyielding resolve. I spoke words that did not belong to me, words born from the depths of my new existence. “I am the Hollow.” “The forgotten force that rises when the world has turned its back.” “I am no longer yours to bury.” The air around me seemed to pulse with dark energy, thickening with the promise of wrath and reckoning. Inside this fragile vessel of flesh, something monstrous had awakened—an ancient storm wrapped in shadow and fury, coiled deep within my bones, ready to erupt with a force that no one, not even the gods themselves, could contain.