Chapter 125
The Thread That Waits
Kaelen and Lira follow the figure in grey wool to the beginning of all things, where the first weaver sits at a loom that has never stopped. She reveals that the missing thread is not her own—it is the choice she was never given, and only Kaelen can offer it.
Kaelen stared at the loom where the child had woven herself into the tapestry. The missing thread gaped like a wound in the center of the pattern, and the silence that breathed from it was the only sound in the field.
Lira's hand tightened on his. "The first weaver. Where is she?"
The figure in grey wool did not look away from the loom. "She is at the place where the first thread was spun. Where the pattern began before there was a pattern. Before there was a weaver or a loom."
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