Desperate for answers, Elara seeks out the only person she knows who might understand: Mr. Alden, the ancient, near-blind head librarian. He listens, then leads her to the library's sub-basement, to a special collection not on any map: The Registry of Unwritten Lives. He explains the Glimmer is a rare gift/curse of the "Librarian of Unwritten Ends." She doesn't just see endings; she's a living repository for stories that are unjustly cut short. "You stopped an unscheduled deletion from the Archive of Existence," he whispers. "The narrative energy has to go somewhere. It chose its savior." The cost? Her own life's trajectory is now overwritten with these foreign potentials. If she doesn't find a way to "shelve" these unwritten lives, they will consume her own story entirely.
