Verse of the Unspoken

Previously

…The Elders’ pronouncements echoed through the hall, a droning incantation of reassurance. “The body is a vessel,” one intoned, their voice like dry leaves skittering across stone. “It requires balance. It requires order. The sickness is but a temporary imbalance, a shadow that will recede with the dawn of our collective peace.” Peace. The word felt like a lie on Elara’s tongue. She felt the thrumming beneath the floorboards, a low, insistent pulse that had grown from a whisper to a tremor in recent cycles. It was the sound of the Unseen, she knew, a