Chapter 135
Chapter 135
Kaelen chooses to cut the shadow thread, trusting the child to carry Eldoria's memory. The new world begins without the weight of the past, but Kaelen's loss of memory leaves a quiet emptiness that Lira and the child must navigate.
The rusted metal bit into Kaelen's palm, cold and rough as old grief. The woman in black waited, her shadow-thread pulsing in the river, and behind him he felt the weight of three gazes—Lira's steady hand, Elara's small fingers, the child's amber eyes that held the sky.
"If I cut it," Kaelen said slowly, "I forget everything. Eldoria. The loom. The prophecy. All of it."
The woman in black inclined her head. "Every thread of the first world will be severed from your mind. You will stand in this new world as if born from its soil, with no memory of what came before."
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