Chapter 90
The Thread That Listens
Kaelen faces the choice of the blue thread, but the loom's new melody offers a different path—a thread of memory that could open a bridge without costing him his power. He must decide what he is willing to lose.
The blue thread pulsed in the woman's palm, a sliver of twilight caught between her fingers. Kaelen's hand hovered over it, not quite reaching. The warmth of the golden-silver thread within him was a steady pulse, a second heartbeat he had grown used to. To give it up would be to cut away a part of himself he had only just learned to carry.
"What happens to it?" he asked. "The golden-silver thread. If I use the blue thread, where does it go?"
The woman's ancient eyes held his. "It returns to the loom. It becomes part of the tapestry—a thread of sacrifice that strengthens the pause. You will feel its absence, but the forgetting will not feel yours."
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