Chapter 44
Chapter 44: The Cocoon in the Well
Kaelen and Lira discover a figure wrapped in silver strands at the bottom of the village well, a woman who has been suspended in the unbound thread's memory for decades. She wakes with a warning about the loom's new hunger and a demand that they return to the first kingdom before the threads they carry unravel what they have already woven.
Kaelen's hand tightened on the stone rim. The figure in the well stirred, silver strands shifting like breath across a still pond. Lira stood beside him, her face pale in the faint light that pulsed from below.
"We need to get her out," Lira said.
Kaelen nodded, though his mind raced. The thread on his wrist hummed in resonance with the cocoon, a low vibration that traveled up his arm and settled in his chest. He recognized the rhythm now—it was the same pulse he had felt when he first touched the loom, the heartbeat of something older than prophecy.
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