Chapter 276: The Song of Rebirth
Author: Clare Felix
last update2026-01-31 16:05:30

Liora had not sung in three thousand years.

She had forgotten she even knew how. In her mortal life, music had been a private pleasure—something she did while reading late at night, soft melodies hummed under her breath. Nothing trained or particularly skillful, just the natural human impulse to add music to moments of contentment.

But that was before she became time's witness. Before she dispersed across the temporal spectrum, existing in all moments simultaneously. Music required linear progression, notes following notes in sequence. How could one who experienced all of time at once create something that depended on the flow of moments?

Yet today—standing at the confluence of a trillion timelines, observing the universe in all its chaotic beauty—she felt the impulse returning. Not to hum a melody she'd learned, but to create something new. Something that had never existed before.

She let the feeling build, not rushing it. She had all the time in the universe, quite literally. The ur
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