Chapter 26
The Tower's Ascent
Kaelen and Lira are pulled upward by the silver-gold thread as the tower rises, confronting the First Weaver's echo, who reveals that the kingdom's question is not yet complete and that they must become the answer itself by weaving their lives into the new loom.
The thread tightened around them, not with violence but with purpose, drawing them upward through the chamber's broken ceiling. Lira felt Kaelen's hand grip hers, the silver-gold strands winding around their wrists, their arms, their bodies, lifting them as the tower groaned and rose around them.
Stone grated against stone. Dust fell in curtains, and through the gaps in the crumbling walls, Lira saw the sky—not the twilight they had left, but a dawn of pale gold and silver, as though the sun and moon had decided to rise together.
"Kaelen!" she shouted over the grinding of the tower.
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