Chapter 109
For the first time since the dawn of flame,the void extended its hand not to erase—but to connect.
Veraxis touched Vaern's palm.
No lightning split the sky.No mountain broke.No fire flared.
Only one thing happened:
Silence became stillness.
Kael stood nearby, breathing slow.
The world didn't feel heavier anymore.
Just... quieter.
A stillness earned, not imposed.
The kind that came after a long, long cry.
Veraxis looked down at its hand.
No longer flickering.
Its edges didn't blur.
Its voice no longer twisted.
"I don't know what I am," it said.
Kael stepped forward.
"You don't need to be what they feared."
"Be what you choose."
Eliendara rose weakly, supported by the now-glowing fig tree.
She watched as the ash-road that had once consumed the land crumbled away.
Leaves fluttered upward, not down.
Time itself—gently—began to breathe again.
In a whisper that sounded like a story remembered after centuries of forgetting,Veraxis spoke:
"Then I will be… the one who remembers silence."
"Not to erase it…"
"But to honor it."
The void inside its chest collapsed into a sphere—black at first, then slowly turning clear like crystal.
Kael and Vaern watched as Veraxis cupped it in its hands.
And offered it upward.
The crystal rose into the sky.
Higher.
Higher.
Until it joined the stars.
And then—something miraculous happened:
A new star lit the heavens.
Dim.Quiet.
But eternal.
The star of Remembrance.
The world began to heal.
The mountain reformed.
The forests regrew.
The forgotten dreams returned to sleeping minds.
Even the fig tree sang—a soft hum, old and kind.
Kael exhaled.
Vaern smiled for the first time in what felt like years.
Eliendara fell to her knees—not in defeat, but in awe.
"We didn't win," she whispered.
"We changed."
Veraxis stepped back into the shadows, not to hide—
But to rest.
It was no longer unbeing.
It was something chosen.
And in that choice… it found peace.
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With Veraxis at peace, the world must reckon with what comes after survival.
Kael and Vaern return to the village, now seen as more than heroes.
But peace brings questions.
And somewhere in the distance…a spark flickers that was never supposed to light again.