Bread for the Nameless
“Give a lost thing bread, and it will choose whether to stay.”
Hearth Litany, Closing Verse
The mountain breathed again and the valley learned the count.
Children in the cellar matched it in sleep.
The ash line gave a slow shiver the way a horse will when it decides to tolerate rain.
From the reeds...
Chapters
1. The Judgment
2. The Veil's Edge
3. The Taking of Breath
4. The Naming of Weather
5. The Tongueless Bell 
6. The Oath of Small Fires
7. Ash that Remembers
8. Where Shadows Break
9. The Mouths That Speak
10. The River Test
11. The Rivers Keep the Names
12. The Traitor
13. The House that Breathes
14. The Wind that Hunts
15. The Name Wind Keeps
16. The Fog that Remembers
17. The Door Between Names
18. Bread for the Nameless
19. The Mark that Chose
20. The Book and The Scar
21. The Weight of Her Name
22. Miri's Fire
23. Night of Ash and Teeth
24. The River's Ledger
25. The River Signs it's Name
26. The Sentence Beneath the Mountain
27. Breath Before Bell
28. The Ring That Opens
29. The Road That Rewrites Itself
30. The Door That Spoke Back
31. The Gate That Refused to Bow
32. The Hand That Did Not Burn
33. The Flame That Chose Work
34. The Man Who Did Not Flee
35. The Braid That Wasn’t Broken
36. The Vow That Remains
37. Epilogue: The Line That Stays
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