Chapter 136 – The Space Between Words
Author: Clare Felix
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Consciousness returned not as morning, but as the slow realization of a forgotten room. It was dark, yet he was looking. It was quiet, yet he was listening to the quiet. Felix opened eyes he could not feel to a world that could not be described.

He lingered, or stood—the concepts did not hold here—in a sea of limitless, shimmering grey. Not the grey of stone or of ash, but the grey of possibility, the color of a mind waiting for an idea to form. This was the Realm Between Words, the places between the sentences of creation.

All around him, the building blocks of existence flowed along in a cosmic tide that was very slow. His letters from home alphabets he knew and foreign alphabets he did not know by the thousand whirled like shoals of phosphorescent fish. His paragraphs from unread books fluttered like tattered pennants. His punctuation marks—his colons like boggling eyes, his question marks like hanging hooks—swept past his unsubstantial self. Rivers of clean black ink wound in lazy
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