All Chapters of The Clockwork Librarian's Oath: Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
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Chapter 11
Elias could only stare at his sister, Anna. Her smile—natural, chaotic, completely free of the cold, crystalline knowledge that had defined her for weeks—was the most beautiful, most terrifying thing he had ever seen.The fading gold script on his hands, the residual light of the Librarian’s Oath, burned against the raw, visceral joy of seeing her whole. He had risked everything, achieved the impossible, and broken the perfect prison.But the prison was a shell. The Oath was the sentence, and it was bound to him.“Elias?” Anna repeated, closing the distance, her brow furrowing with genuine concern. “What is it? You’re trembling. And what are those scratches on your hands?”Elias felt the Keeper's knowledge surge, providing the instantaneous, most efficient lie: a structural explanation for a personal crisis.“I… I found the Prime Root,” Elias managed, forcing his mouth to form the words. “But the geometry was unstable. I was calculating the final variables when the main power gri
Chapter 12
The crystalline vellum tendrils launched by Varen, sharp and hungry, were mere feet from Anna's face. They were the physical embodiment of the Restricted Section's walls, ready to encase the single greatest source of Uncontained Chaos he could perceive.Elias roared—a sound that was neither human nor mechanical, but the sudden, violent release of geometric energy.He didn't execute the full Containment Protocol; he didn't have the mental reserves, and the Oath demanded Varen's permanent imprisonment, which Elias refused. Instead, he forced a localized, temporary solution, using the Prime Root knowledge to create an Architectural Paradox.His glowing hand sliced through the air between Varen and Anna.“Containment Field: Geometric Nullification!”The command was a silent, instantaneous blast of pure structural logic. It hit the incoming vellum tendrils, which immediately froze in mid-air. The crystalline material didn't break; it became simultaneously present and absent in space,