First Bite
The Hollow had always been a place of reckoning—never judgment, only revelation.
And now it was asking her:
“What do you see?” The question rippled through her, echoing in every memory the Hollow held, reverberating through her blood and into the thread itself. It was not a challenge, but an invitation—a doorway only she could step through.
She stepped toward the center, toward herself, toward possibility. Each footfall sent ripples across the blue nothingness, the images shifting, gathering at her back like wings. The Crown blazed brighter, humming with the promise of transformation. She felt the eyes of every forgotten ancestor, every future child, on her—witness and blessing and plea.
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