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Chapter 294. The Obelisk’s Glow
Author: Clare Felix
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In the end, it was not the grand ceremonies, the New Council's rulings, or even Ethan's Chronicle that most profoundly shaped the daily life of the new world. It was the light. The gentle, perpetual glow of the crystalline Obelisk was one constant in a world learning the delicate art of peace. It was the breath of the horizon, the heartbeat of the mountain.

It did not blaze like the sun. In the full light of day, it was a shimmer, a distortion in the air above the Northern Crag, a pillar of captured and solidified dawn. But as dusk fell and the world bled into indigo and violet, the Obelisk's true nature revealed itself. It began to pulse. A soft, slow rhythm, like the resting heartbeat of a sleeping giant. A light that did not so much illuminate the world as it suffused the world with itself-a luminous mist that settled in the valleys and clung to the spires of Aethel.

This pulse was Amelia's eternal presence. Not as a voice, not as a conscious thought, but as a fact. A fundamental l
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