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Chapter Ninety-Eight: Echoes in the Light
The valley stretched before them, no longer the quiet plain it had been when they first arrived. The world was growing, filling itself in with colour and sound. Wind rippled through the silver grass. The streams that once glowed faintly now shimmered with faint hints of gold and blue. Life was taking form.Selene walked slowly through it, her eyes tracing the horizon. Everything around her felt fragile—too new to trust, too alive to control. Every sound, every movement was a reminder that the world she had built was no longer hers alone.Kaelen walked beside her. He was silent, but the weight of his thoughts was clear in his eyes. The light caught on the edge of his jaw, softening him in a way that made him look almost human again.Lyra followed a few steps behind, quiet but aware. Her gaze moved constantly studying the new formations of earth, the way the streams bent around unseen energy.Kian led ahead, guiding the newly awakened soul. The being moved as if learning how to breathe.
Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Valley Deepens
They moved deeper into the valley where the light folded in heavy layers, thick enough that every step felt like walking through warm breath. The air hummed beneath their feet. The ground no longer behaved like earth. It responded to them. Each footstep brightened the soil for a moment before fading again.Selene walked ahead of the others. The soft glow under her skin had not dimmed. It pulsed like a heartbeat that did not belong to her alone. Every few steps, her fingers twitched, reacting to voices only she could hear. The echoes had become quiet, but they were not gone.Kaelen stayed close, watching the horizon and her in equal measure. His movements were defensive without being controlling, as if he knew he could not stop her path, only shield it when he had to. He glanced toward the shifting patterns of light. They moved like rivers under glass, bending themselves around Selene’s presence.Lyra and Kian kept a steady pace behind them, guiding the soul that had not yet chosen a n
Chapter One Hundred: The Dividing Paths
The chamber held its breath as Selene, Kaelen, Lyra, and Kian stood before the three unfolding paths. The light that shaped them did not flicker or shift now. It waited with unnerving stillness, as if even the air refused to move until they chose.Nothing in this world had ever felt so quiet.Selene took in each path slowly. The first curved toward a distant shimmer, soft and silver, as if it led into a memory she had not formed yet. The second path flickered with deeper tones, threaded with shadows that did not frighten her but reminded her of everything she had once tried to hold together. The third was the darkest, near black, but it pulsed with warmth as if it hid a heartbeat.Kaelen studied them too, his features set in sharp thought, his hand still slightly lifted in the direction of Selene not claiming, not restraining. Just present. Lyra’s breath had steadied again, though her fingers were curled tightly at her sides. Kian stood close to the soul that had not yet chosen form,
Chapter One Hundred One: The Shore of Returning
Selene did not move at first. She only stood there, staring into the eyes of the figure who knew her without needing a name. The light around them shifted more slowly now, like it was keeping its distance, afraid to interrupt something ancient.The figure’s outline flickered again, more defined with every breath she took. The shape of their face was familiar, not in memory but in recognition as if this was someone she had been missing without even knowing.Selene forced air into her lungs. “Do you know me?”The figure tilted their head the way someone might when meeting a friend after a long absence. “I did once. Before the world broke.”Their voice carried warmth and something older than time. It steadied her even as it shook something inside her chest.Selene took a single step forward. The ground under her foot glowed in response, forming a gentle ripple across the surface. When she spoke again, her voice felt smaller than she expected.“Are you from the world that ended… or the on
Chapter One Hundred Two: The Memory Field
The ground shifted beneath Selene’s feet as she followed the Echo across the widening plain. The sky above them changed tone, soft silver deepening into something warmer. Not sunlight, not yet, but the promise of it.The Echo slowed when they reached a stretch of land that looked different from the rest. The air felt thicker here. The ground pulsed with shapes that faded before they could fully form.Selene stepped closer. At first, she thought she was seeing light reflected on water. Then she realised she was seeing memories moving inside the ground as if the world had become a mirror that remembered everything.A city skyline appeared for a moment. Streets filled with people who didn’t know they were living in the last days of their world. A child laughing. A tower is falling. A pair of hands reaching for someone they would never touch again.Selene’s stomach tightened. She didn’t know these faces, but her body reacted as though she had failed each one herself.The Echo knelt and pl
Chapter One Hundred Three: When the Valley Breathed
The first sound was subtle, almost too soft for Selene to catch. A thin break in the stillness, like the world exhaling through cracked stone. She stepped closer to the ridge without thinking. The Echo didn’t stop her, only watched her feet press into the pale dust.The valley below shifted again. This time louder. Not violent. More like a warning that had been waiting for centuries.Selene didn’t blink.The air thickened around her, carrying a faint heat that brushed her skin. The kind that came from something waking up, something that had been storing power for far too long.The Echo tilted its head. “It remembers you.”Selene swallowed slowly. “How? I’ve never been here.”“You have,” the Echo answered. “Not as you are now.”Selene felt the meaning settle into her bones. Not a revelation. More like confirmation of a fear she had never spoken aloud.The ground in the valley cracked in one long, sharp line.Selene stepped back without meaning to.The Echo’s voice stayed calm. “Do not
Chapter One Hundred Four: The Valley Recognizes Her
The dust figure didn’t disappear. It grew clearer. The outline sharpened until Selene could almost make out the shape of a face. Not fully. Not enough to know who it belonged to. But enough to make her chest tighten with something she couldn’t name.The ground beneath her feet pulsed once.Warm.Alive.Like the earth itself was breathing against her skin.Selene locked her jaw and didn’t move.The Echo stayed close but didn’t touch her again. They watched the valley like they were watching something sacred, something dangerous.The dust figure tilted its head.Selene felt heat move through her spine so fast she inhaled sharply.“Why does it look like that?” she whispered.The Echo’s voice stayed low. “Because it cannot take your shape. Not while you’re standing here.”That didn’t make sense.None of this made sense.Selene stared harder at the figure. “You’re saying… It’s trying to become me?”“No,” the Echo said softly. “It is trying to remember you.”Selene felt her throat tighten.
Chapter One Hundred Five: The Valley Pulls Them In
The path narrowed as they moved deeper into the valley.Selene could feel it the same way she felt her own heartbeat. A pull in her chest, steady and warm, like invisible fingers were guiding her toward something she had touched once and forgotten.The ground under their feet glowed brighter with every step.Kaelen stayed close on her right. Lyra stayed close on her left. The Echo walked slightly behind them, silent, watching the world react to Selene like it knew her name better than she did.The valley widened.Light gathered along the walls in slow, rippling waves. It was beautiful, but not in a peaceful way. It felt alive. Aware. Focused on her.Lyra nudged Selene gently. “Your breathing changed again.”“I’m fine,” Selene said quietly.Kaelen didn’t speak, but she felt him listening to her breath the same way Lyra did.They kept walking.The glow intensified until it painted their shadows across the ground in long, trembling shapes.Selene hated how familiar it felt.Not comfortin
Chapter One Hundred Six: The Pull of the Core
The white light didn’t release her.It wasn’t violent, but it wasn’t gentle either. It felt like hands pushing into her chest and pulling her forward at the same time. The world around her dissolved until there was nothing but brightness and warmth and a low humming vibration that wrapped itself around her ribs.Selene tried to inhale, but her breath caught halfway. Her body felt weightless. Suspended. Like she was drifting through something alive.She blinked, and shapes slowly formed inside the light.Not physical shapes. Memories.Shadows of the old world. Faint outlines of faces without detail. Places without edges. Moments she couldn’t fully see but somehow still recognised. The light held them together like threads, tangled and unfinished.Selene lifted her hand or thought she did. The memory-shapes moved toward her in slow, drifting motion.Her throat tightened.They felt like hers.They felt like loss.She whispered, barely audible. “What do you want from me?”The light answer
Chapter One Hundred Seven: After the Light Breaks
Selene held on to both of them without thinking.Her hands felt cold even though Kaelen’s grip was firm and warm. Lyra stayed pressed against her side, steadying her with a tense focus that made her arms tremble. None of them spoke at first. The light behind Selene slowly dimmed, shrinking back into the pool at the valley floor like it was hiding after being exposed.Her legs wobbled and she leaned into Kaelen when her balance slipped. He didn’t loosen his hold. His breathing was uneven, sharp, as if he had been fighting through something she hadn’t seen.Lyra finally spoke, her voice low. “You were gone for too long.”Selene swallowed hard, still staring at the ground because she couldn’t trust her vision yet. “I didn’t leave. It pulled me in.”Kaelen’s grip tightened around her arm before he forced himself to ease it. His jaw flexed as he looked down at her, and for the first time, the calm he always kept so tightly around himself was cracked.“What did you see in there?” he asked q