Chapter 91
The Echo That Watches
Kaelen grapples with the girl's warning about the second echo while the white thread pulses in the silent loom. The woman reveals that the echo is the part of the first question that was never spoken aloud, and it has been watching him since he stepped through the bridge. When the glass ripples again, the girl appears with a figure of shifting light and shadow—the second echo, which speaks its first word.
The glass held only his reflection. Kaelen stared at it, the girl's voice still ringing in his ears. The first question has a second echo. And it is looking for you.
Lira's hand was still on his arm, warm and grounding. He turned to her, and the hollow ache where his memory of the first step had been throbbed faintly. He knew her eyes were brown, but he could not see them in his mind. He knew she had smiled when he stepped through, but the image was a description, not a feeling.
"What does she mean, a second echo?" Lira asked. Her voice pulled him back to the tower chamber, to the dust motes drifting in the pale light, to Elara standing close to the loom with her hand hovering near the white thread.
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