Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty-One: The Flame That Dreamed

Yet somewhere in the spaces between stars, a whisper lingers—

not a threat, not a curse,

but a promise.

“Every beginning needs its keeper.

Every ending, its heart.”

And so, the world breathes on.

Alive. Endless. Watching.

The world had slept too long.

For a thousand years, the Tree of Dawn had s...