Chapter 174
Chapter 174
Elenwe, Ren, and the child descend the spiral staircase into a chamber where the first world's memory is woven. A figure emerges from the loom—the original First Weaver's remnant—and reveals that the silver thread binding the hollow is a chain that will eventually pull Elenwe into the threshold. The child's memory of the garden's song is the only key to sever it permanently, and the remnant offers a final choice: let the child forget, or watch Elenwe become the hollow's eternal door.
The staircase descended in a tight spiral, the stones slick with moisture that gleamed like polished silver. The faint light grew as they went deeper, casting long shadows that stretched and twisted on the walls. The child's hand was warm in Elenwe's, her small fingers gripping tightly but without trembling. Ren followed close behind, his footsteps echoing in the narrow passage.
"The voice," Ren said. "It sounds like—"
"I know," Elenwe replied. It was the voice she had heard in the garden's memory, the voice that had spoken through the hollow's chorus. It was the voice of the first world, or something that had been waiting there since the beginning.
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