Shards Of Oath
Author: Beo
last update2025-08-25 22:15:40

The morning broke jagged.

Jason hadn’t slept. The net hummed with static unrest, every thread tugging in a different direction. Faces passed him in the square—some avoiding his eyes, others staring with accusation, as if he had personally carved the split into their skulls.

By midday, the tension was too thick to leave alone. He called the Wing to the courthouse. Not just soldiers this time, but families, elders, even the ragged refugees who had clung to their walls since the first hazefall. If they were going to survive, the net had to be more than power. It had to be will.

***

The proposal

Jason stood at the cracked bench where once judges had ruled, his voice steady but raw.

“We can’t keep unraveling. The net isn’t just binding us—it’s feeding on us. Every memory we let drift becomes another strand for it to twist. So we’re setting anchors. Each of us. One memory—our own—that cannot be altered. A shard that stays ours, no matter what the weave carries.”

The crowd stirred. Doubt. Ho
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