Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Boon and Kael follow the silver thread east to a hill where a tree appears as a tower to her but a tree to him. Beneath it, an old woman tends to first dreams that have been outgrown. She reveals that the silver dream was once a first dream from her tree, sold to the Keeper to hide the secret of where first dreams go. Boon descends into a cavern filled with preserved first dreams in glass orbs. Touching one, she experiences a vision: each first dream is a possible future. The Keeper arrives, and the old woman urges them to escape through a silver-lit tunnel. They flee as the ground trembles.
They followed the silver thread east through the narrow streets of the sleeping town. The thread did not glow brightly—only a soft pulse at Boon’s wrist, like a heartbeat made of light. It tugged gently, sometimes left, sometimes right, as if it knew the way even when the alleys twisted into dead ends. Kael walked close beside her, his footsteps quiet on the damp cobblestones. He carried a small lantern he had picked up from her workroom, its flame casting long shadows that reached ahead of them like pale fingers.
“How far do you think it is?” he asked, his voice low.
“I don’t know,” Boon admitted. “The dream didn’t give me a distance. Just the direction and the shape of the tower.”
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