Chapter 12
Gate Seven: The Heart's Choice
Gate Seven tested empathy. Its guardian forced me to feel the pain of others, the ripples of The Weaver’s actions. I had to choose between self-preservation and compassion.
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Gate Seven. The number pulsed, a dull ache behind my eyes. Silas had warned me that this Gate wouldn't be about strength or intellect, but about something far more fragile, far more dangerous. He’d called it the Gate of Empathy. I’d scoffed, thinking I knew what that meant. Feeling sorry for someone, right? Easy.
I was wrong. So terribly wrong.
The air shimmered, not with the usual temporal distortion, but with a suffocating weight. It clung
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