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Chapter 270 — The Unchosen Ending
Light swallowed everything. White. Blinding. All consuming. Arin clung to Jenna’s arm, shaking, crying, unable to breathe through the weight of the choice pressing down on their small body.Jenna kissed the side of their head fiercely. “You’re not alone. You hear me? You’re never alone.”Denilson wrapped both of them in his arms anchoring them, shielding them from the storm of light tearing through the chamber.Elias staggered forward, fighting the brilliance pouring from the future Arin. “Arin listen this thing is not your destiny”The future Arin turned to him. Eyes bright. Calm. Unshakeable “Destiny is not the word. Completion is.”Arin whimpered. “I don’t want to disappear. I don’t want to become something else. I want to stay me.”The future Arin knelt again, hand extended. “You won’t disappear. You will expand.”Jenna’s voice cracked with fury. “They are not ready! You don’t get to decide this!”The future Arin blinked. “I am not deciding. The world is.”The chamber trembled vi
Chapter 269 — Where the Dream Was Buried
The staircase to the final chamber was silent. Not heavy, not cold but hushed, the kind of quiet that comes before a storm one doesn’t yet understand.Arin walked between Jenna and Denilson, their feet soft against steps made of pale stone, glowing faintly with every touch. Elias followed behind, markings dimmed in respect or fear of what waited at the top.Arin’s glow flickered violently, shifting from warm gold to uneasy white. “I don’t remember hiding anything else,” they whispered.Elias exhaled slowly. “Trauma doesn’t ask permission to bury itself.”Arin swallowed hard. The staircase ended at a tall archway. But unlike the other chambers, this one wasn’t dark, or blazing with fire, or echoing with screams. It was white. Empty. Silent. As if the world itself held its breath inside it.Jenna squeezed Arin’s hand. “Sweetheart, whatever’s in here we face it together.”Arin nodded weakly. Denilson rested a large hand on their small back. “Open the door.”Arin stepped forward and rais
Chapter 268 — The Fear of Becoming the Monster
The staircase to the third chamber felt different. Narrower. Tighter. As if the tower itself wanted to push them back.Arin buried their face against Denilson’s shoulder, breathing shallowly as they ascended. The air was thick like smoke without fire, like something burning inside a heart instead of a room.Elias kept checking over his shoulder. “Arin, talk to me. What are you feeling?”Arin’s answer was small. “Wrong.”Jenna moved closer, brushing their hair back. “What do you mean, sweetheart?”Arin’s glow pulsed white, gold, then a deep, unsettling black. “I feel heavy. Like there’s something inside me waiting to explode.”Elias exchanged a grim look with Jenna. That was enough warning. Because when they reached the next landing, the tower didn’t open gradually. It split open violently.Stones tore apart, ripping into the shape of jagged teeth. Air rushed inward like a scream. Red light blazed through the cracks.Arin clutched Denilson’s neck tightly. “No. No, no I know this place”
Chapter 267 — The Echo of Abandonment
The staircase narrowed the deeper they climbed. The air grew colder. Sharper. As if every breath was being filtered through the memory of something Arin once feared too deeply to name.The tower walls whispered not with voices, but with trembling vibrations. Like heartbeats.Arin’s heart. Jenna held their hand the entire way up, her thumb tracing small circles against their skin.Denilson stayed behind them, large and steady, a wall against whatever might try to follow. Elias led, markings glowing brighter with every step, casting red reflections against the stone.Arin halted suddenly. “I feel it.”Elias turned. “Second chamber?”Arin nodded slowly, their eyes dimming. “It’s waiting.”As they reached the next landing, the staircase split open, unfurling into a vast circular room. The moment they stepped inside everything changed.The air thickened. The light dimmed into a bruised purple. Wind sighed through the room without a source. Arin gasped, doubling over.Elias lunged, catchi
Chapter 266 — Descent into the Tower of Nightmares
The tower loomed like a wound against the newborn sky. A spire of shimmering black-gold stone, its surface rippling like something alive beneath the light. The hum pouring from it vibrated the bones of the world, making the grass sway as though exhaling under an unseen weight.Arin stood between Jenna and Denilson, one hand in each of theirs. The glow beneath their skin flickered weakly white, gold, black but none of the colors felt steady. The world around them responded to their fear, dimming and brightening in hesitant breaths.Elias stepped ahead, eyes narrowed, scanning the tower’s base.“We go slow,” he murmured. “This place is built from Arin’s buried fears. Anything can manifest.”Arin swallowed, the sound small in the heavy quiet.“I didn’t know I made this,” they whispered. “I didn’t know I had enough fear to build something so big.”Jenna knelt beside them, taking their hands.“Fear doesn’t mean weakness. It means you have something to lose.”Arin’s eyes glistened.“I don’t
Chapter 265 — When the World Took Its First Breath
The sky shuddered with a soft exhale the first the newborn world had ever taken. Light rippled outward from the spot where the blue spark had vanished, expanding across the valley in gentle waves that made the grass sway as if greeting the family now standing in its heart.Arin was still shaking in Jenna’s arms. Every breath they took trembled. Every blink glistened. Every heartbeat felt like a storm inside their small chest.Jenna cupped the back of their head, forehead pressed to Arin’s temple. “You’re safe. I’m here. We’re here.”Arin nodded weakly, though the tears didn’t stop. Denilson gathered both of them into a larger embrace, covering Arin from behind like a solid wall of warmth.Elias stood beside them close enough to shield, far enough to let Arin breathe. His red markings dimmed down to embers.Arin whispered hoarsely: “I thought I thought I’d feel better right away.”Jenna stroked their cheek with her thumb. “You don’t heal in a single moment. Not even after choosing your
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