Chapter 7
Chapter 7: The Tolling Bell
Kaelen emerges from the cavern to find Eldoria already unraveling—buildings flicker, people forget their own names. Lira and Theron are gone. The Weaver returns to reveal that Kaelen's choice has begun the erasure, but the process can be halted if he reaches the loom before the last bell.
The first bell faded into silence, and Kaelen stood alone in the dark cavern. The water at his feet was still, black, and cold. He lifted his hands—empty, pale, trembling. The crimson thread was gone, the book blank, the key dust. He had touched the river, made his choice, and felt nothing change.
But the bell had tolled.
He turned and walked back through the narrow cleft, his shoulder scraping against stone. The tunnel seemed longer than before, the walls closer. When he emerged into the twilight, the world was different.
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