Chapter 97
Chapter 97: The Thread That Binds
Kaelen must weave the forgetting itself into the pattern to complete the answer, but the act binds him to the loom as its eternal weaver.
The forgetting screamed, a sound that was not sound but the absence of light, the hollow where a voice had been. Kaelen kept his hand on the violet-silver pattern, feeling the weave pulse beneath his palm like a heart struggling to beat. The darkness coiled up the loom's frame, threading through the heddles, trying to unravel the completed answer strand by strand.
Lira grabbed his arm. "Kaelen, it's tearing the weave apart."
He saw it. Where the forgetting touched the pattern, the violet-silver dimmed, turning grey, then black. The answer was being unmade, not by force but by silence—the forgetting was returning the thread to the question it had never been allowed to speak.
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