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Chapter Thirty-Three: The Unraveling Thread
Author: Alyah Night
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The wind across the Leyrift Plateau sang in strange, discordant tones. Above, storm clouds spiraled like a god's eye slowly blinking. Ethan stood at the edge of the fractured stone platform, his cloak snapping behind him as if trying to pull him back from the abyss.

Aeris joined him, her boots crunching over time-worn gravel. "You felt it too?"

"Like a cord being pulled loose from the weave of the world," Ethan murmured. "Something has begun to unravel."

They had barely returned from the Council of Echoes, where the truth of the Hollowed and the Gates had shattered what remained of political illusions. Now, signs of deeper disruption were appearing—crops wilting overnight, stars flickering in unfamiliar patterns, even the oldest wards failing across the realms.

Behind them, the Passage Corps and select envoys of each realm reviewed maps littered with anomalies. Mira stood at the center, her fingers twitching with residual magic.

"It's the Weave," she said. "Not just magic—reality itse
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