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The world breathed slower now. Kael remained still, lying where the starlight met the earth’s glowing roots. The air shimmered around him—time curved gently, refusing to move without his permission. But someone else had already changed. Marcus stood at the edge of the obsidian tree, its crystal-like branches weaving silently behind him. He looked… almost the same. But not quite. His skin now held faint constellations that moved beneath the surface like memory echoing under flesh. His eyes had lost their whites entirely—replaced by smooth spheres of starlit gray. He didn’t blink. He didn’t need to. When Selene stepped closer, she felt it immediately. He wasn’t human anymore. “Marcus,” she whispered. “Is that still you?” He turned slowly, and when he smiled—it was gentle. Sad. “In part,” he said, echoing the same words he had spoken when he first emerged from the black tree. “But not all.” Pamela watched him warily, arms folded. She had been quiet since the last ri
Chapter 204
The world breathed slower now. Kael remained still, lying where the starlight met the earth’s glowing roots. The air shimmered around him—time curved gently, refusing to move without his permission. But someone else had already changed. Marcus stood at the edge of the obsidian tree, its crystal-like branches weaving silently behind him. He looked… almost the same. But not quite. His skin now held faint constellations that moved beneath the surface like memory echoing under flesh. His eyes had lost their whites entirely—replaced by smooth spheres of starlit gray. He didn’t blink. He didn’t need to. When Selene stepped closer, she felt it immediately. He wasn’t human anymore. “Marcus,” she whispered. “Is that still you?” He turned slowly, and when he smiled—it was gentle. Sad. “In part,” he said, echoing the same words he had spoken when he first emerged from the black tree. “But not all.” Pamela watched him warily, arms folded. She had been quiet since the last ri
Chapter 203
The world breathed slower now. Kael remained still, lying where the starlight met the earth’s glowing roots. The air shimmered around him—time curved gently, refusing to move without his permission. But someone else had already changed. Marcus stood at the edge of the obsidian tree, its crystal-like branches weaving silently behind him. He looked… almost the same. But not quite. His skin now held faint constellations that moved beneath the surface like memory echoing under flesh. His eyes had lost their whites entirely—replaced by smooth spheres of starlit gray. He didn’t blink. He didn’t need to. When Selene stepped closer, she felt it immediately. He wasn’t human anymore. “Marcus,” she whispered. “Is that still you?” He turned slowly, and when he smiled—it was gentle. Sad. “In part,” he said, echoing the same words he had spoken when he first emerged from the black tree. “But not all.” Pamela watched him warily, arms folded. She had been quiet since the last rift closed b
Chapter 202
The world breathed slower now.Kael remained still, lying where the starlight met the earth’s glowing roots. The air shimmered around him—time curved gently, refusing to move without his permission.But someone else had already changed.Marcus stood at the edge of the obsidian tree, its crystal-like branches weaving silently behind him. He looked… almost the same.But not quite.His skin now held faint constellations that moved beneath the surface like memory echoing under flesh. His eyes had lost their whites entirely—replaced by smooth spheres of starlit gray. He didn’t blink. He didn’t need to.When Selene stepped closer, she felt it immediately.He wasn’t human anymore.“Marcus,” she whispered. “Is that still you?”He turned slowly, and when he smiled—it was gentle. Sad.“In part,” he said, echoing the same words he had spoken when he first emerged from the black tree. “But not all.”Pamela watched him warily, arms folded. She had been quiet since the last rift closed behind them.
Chapter 201
Silence.Then breath.Not from lungs. Not from anything human.The world itself exhaled.The trees moved—not in wind, but in rhythm. Their leaves shimmered with pulses of light, their bark flexing as if muscles tensed beneath the skin of the forest.The ground rose and fell. Not violently. Gently. Like a sleeping giant, dreaming underfoot.Kael had rewritten the universe.And it was alive.—Selene opened her eyes first. The air felt strange in her lungs—not heavy, not light. It was aware.She sat up slowly, blinking against the kaleidoscope of light overhead. There was no sky—only infinite layers of stars. Some blinked in and out like thoughts changing their mind. Others spun in spirals, singing soft songs in languages she almost understood.Kael lay beside her.Still. Not unconscious. Just… deep. As if speaking that final word had buried him in the roots of this world.“Kael…” she whispered, brushing the hair back from his face.He didn’t wake.Not yet.A few feet away, Pamela stirr
Chapter 200
The sky had no shape now. No edges. No color. It was an unthreading memory, pulled apart like silk soaked in light.Kael stood at the center of the dying world that had never been born.The runes burned beneath his feet, spiraling outward across the ground like veins made of fire and breath. They weren’t symbols anymore—they were thoughts. Moments. Pain and hope encoded in lines only he could read.Each one spoke a truth.Each one carried a cost.Kael lifted his hand.The Language of Undoing—the oldest power, the one even the Architect feared—swirled up his arm. The air itself fractured. Reality shivered. Time hiccupped and bled out.He was no longer just Kael.He was Valis, the First Memory.He was the Warbringer, the Architect’s mistake.He was the breath before creation and the silence after it.And it terrified him.“Kael,” Selene’s voice came behind him—sharp, trembling. “Stop. You don’t need to do this alone.”He didn’t turn. He couldn’t. His body was the anchor now, a bridge be
Chapter 199
The first step off the ship felt like stepping into a dream someone had never finished painting.The ground pulsed under Kael’s boots. It wasn’t dirt. It wasn’t rock. It was… memory. Raw, shapeless, unfinished. Like the planet itself was waiting for someone to finish imagining it.Pamela crouched down, ran her fingers through the soft, shifting soil. “It’s like ash,” she muttered. “But it’s not cold.”Marcus walked ahead. His foot sank halfway through the ground before it lifted him back up.“Gravity’s drunk,” he said. “So is physics.”Kael stood at the front, his eyes locked on the horizon.There was no sky. No sun. No real wind. But light still existed. Air still moved. It was a planet that should’ve never been—but somehow, it was still here.“This place doesn’t exist,” Pamela said. “I scanned for it. Checked the universal records, star charts, the Tribunal vaults… It’s not on any map.”“It was never born,” Kael said. His voice was calm. Too calm.Pamela frowned. “Then how the hell
Chapter 198
Kael couldn’t feel the floor beneath his feet anymore.The memory realm—the one made of shadows, of names, of lifetimes—began to tremble as if it knew the truth had surfaced.Selene’s word still burned in his palm:Valis.He whispered it. At first, just a sound. Then again. Louder. “Valis.”Something inside his chest cracked.Not his ribs. Not pain. Something deeper. Like a lock that had been forced shut across lifetimes.“I… I know that name,” Kael said. “It’s not just a name. It’s me.”Selene blinked slowly, her voice barely above a whisper. “Then it’s true.”Pamela took a step forward. “Wait. What are you saying? Kael—what does that even mean?”Kael wasn’t looking at them. His eyes had glazed, pupils dilated, breathing shallow.He was remembering.Lifetimes.Wars.Worlds.And in each of them—a beginning.A spark.A version of him always being born… always being broken.He dropped to one knee, clutching his head. “It’s not just timelines. It’s me. All of them. I’ve lived so many liv
Chapter 197
Silence.Not just around them, but inside her.Selene sat on the cold, shifting floor of the Memory Realm, her lips parted in panic as she pressed her hand to her throat. No sound. No whisper. No hum. Nothing.Kael knelt beside her, panic swelling in his chest like a scream that wouldn’t come out. “Selene, try again. Just… try again.”She shook her head slowly, trembling fingers forming shapes in the air before collapsing into her lap. Her breathing was fast. Shallow. She looked at him with eyes that screamed all the words she couldn’t say.Pamela stood behind them, stunned and pale. “Is it permanent?”Riva crossed her arms, glancing upward where the Memory Eaters now hovered like silent sharks, circling. “It can be. If we don’t undo it.”Elias, expression unreadable, crouched beside Selene. “They took her voice, not her thoughts.”Selene’s hand twitched at the mention. Slowly, deliberately, she reached into her coat and pulled out a worn piece of cloth—a strip of memory-soaked fabric
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