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CHAPTER 69 — “ The Red Silence “
The forest did not move as it watched every move and Aria felt it long before she understood it, an uncanny stillness settling over the world, dense and heavy, like a held breath stretched to its breaking point. No wind sifted through the trees. No birds murmured. Even the insects had gone mute,Because the silence had become a physical thing like pressure.And beneath her ribs, her Threadcore flickered with a warning pulse.Ezekiel stopped beside her. “This feels wrong.”“It’s not just you,” Aria whispered. “The environment was active a few minutes ago. Now it’s suspended.”Mira crouched, touching the root-veined earth. The soil wasn’t cold but it wasn’t warm either. It felt drained, neutral, as if whatever gave the forest life had been siphoned away with “Something that is suppressing the natural ambience,” Mira murmured. “Artificially.”“Or instinctively,” Kai added. He stood a few paces ahead, his frame tense. “Like a predator that makes everything else hide.”Jade tapped her
CHAPTER 68 — “When the Hunger Looks Back”
Tom’s scream tore out of him before he even realized he was making a sound.He slapped a hand over his eye as he stumbled backward, boots grinding dirt and loose stone. His heart galloped. His lungs refused to expand. Every instinct he had the ones from his childhood, the ones from his system training, the ones from the Deep Loom raggedly shrieked the same warning: “Something just crawled out of your mind”.And it was not supposed to exist.Snowly’s fur bristled like a silver storm. The wolf dog lunged between Tom and the thin, writhing black filament wobbling on the ground like a living hair. He snarled, eyes burning bright white.“Tom, don't move!”Tom tried to speak, but the words scraped uselessly at his throat.“What,what is that?”Snowly didn’t answer immediately.Because the thread though small and seemingly harmless strand was coiling into a shape.A sigil.No, a mouth shaped like a sigil.And from that mouth came a voice that did not belong in the mortal world:“Found you at last.
CHAPTER 67 — “The Woman With Two Faces”
Tom struck the ground with a bone rattling impact, rolling through scorched earth and debris before coming to a stop againstthe roots of a burnt tree. His lungs seized. The world spun around him and heat pressed against his skin like a furnace with smoke and ash everywhere.Screams echoing in the distance with the sky burning in emerald green fire.Tom gasped and pushed himself to his knees.He wasn’t in the Deep Loom anymore,He was on a massive battlefield with hundreds no, thousands of shimmering, thread based constructs who fought in the distance. Soldiers made of woven lightclashed with shadowy figures stitched from black mist. Cities burned beneath towering spirit beasts shaped like serpents, wolves, and creatures Tom couldn’t name, standing five feet in front of him was a woman whose face made Tom’s blood turn to ice.She had his mother’s emerald eyes.His mother’s gentle eyebrows and his mother’s smile except that her smile was wrong.It wasn’t soft or warm nor protective.It
CHAPTER 66 — “The Silver Pulse of Descent”
The instant Tom stepped through the rift, the world flipped upside down Literally. As the ground became the sky and the sky folded into a spiral beneath his feet. Space stretched into silver streaks and twisted around him like molten ribbons of mercury. Snowly streaked beside him, her fur floating weightlessly as if submerged in light rather than air.Tom wasn’t falling.He was descending, pulled by something ancient, immense, and expectant.A low hum vibrated through his bones “Welcome, Heir of the Verdant Thread”The voice wasn’t a voice but a resonance, familiar, maternal, terrifying.Tom tightened his grip on the Flicker Thread spear.“Mom?”But the echo dissolved before it formed into meaning.The silver tunnel opened into a vast cavern that floated in an ocean of shimmering darkness.Tom landed on a circular stone platform suspended in nothingness. Silver roots pulsed beneath the transparent floor, winding like veins toward a colossal sphere hovering at the center of the space.A s
CHAPTER 65 — THE VAULT THAT CHOOSES NO COWARDS
The cavern trembled as Gabby’s hulking figure stepped into the Underroot Prison.He wasn’t the half brother Tom remembered.He was more monstrous now with a Thread corrupted armor fused into his skin, eyes burning red gold like molten metal, and a massive jagged blade vibrating with stolen spirit energy.Gabby grinned wide, feral. “Well, well, well. I finally found you, little brother.”Tom took a step back. “I’m not your brother.”Gabby laughed. “You think that matters down here?”Shadow Tom exhaled slowly, almost pleased.“Oh you are right on schedule.”Gabby pointed the glowing blade at the Root Vault. “Open it, Tom. Now.”Tom steadied his breathing.“I can’t.”“You CAN,” Gabby snapped. “Or I’ll crack you open like a rotten nut and do it myself.”Shadow Tom stepped between them.“So sorry Gabby, you can’t open the Vault. You’re not blood.”Gabby’s grin stretched.“Oh, I don’t need to be blood, I already have THIS.”He raised his free hand.Tom’s eyes widened.In Gabby’s palm hovered a sw
CHAPTER 64 — THE UNDERROOT PRISON
The kind of darkness that swallowed Tom whole, was not the kind of darkness that comes from night.This kind had weight and breathed.The kind that waited for you to scream.Tom hit the ground hard stone, cold, wet, pulsing faintly under his palms as if something alive was beneath it. His chest burned where Shadow-Tom’s hand had closed around him.He pushed himself up, coughing “Where, where am I?”A voice answered from nowhere and everywhere “You’re home.”Tom shivered.“No,”.he muttered, forcing himself to stand. “I’m not playing your game.”“Oh you already are,” Shadow Tom replied, stepping out of the darkness as calmly as if he were stepping into his own living room except now he was worse.More defined and human and definitely looking wrong,His hair looked exactly like Tom’s. His build, his height, even the faint scar under Tom’s chin from when he’d fallen off a tree at ten. But the eyes were blue and white.Same as his mother’s color.And full of ownership.Shadow Tom spread his
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