Chapter 33: The Shape of the Unknown

Scene 1: The First Step Into the Unwritten

The wind carried a scent Ellara had never known before—something fresh, unshaped, untouched by the past. The city behind them no longer held the weight of history; it was something new, shifting with the pulse of the world they had remade.

For the first time, there were no set paths. No prophecies. No fate guiding them forward.

Only choice.

Kael walked by her side, his fingers trailing along the air, feeling the pulse of the changed weave. “It’s… strange,” he murmured. “I don’t recognize anything.”

Sera came up to Ellara’s other side. “That’s because there’s nothing to recognize,” she said, her voice laced with awe. “This world isn’t just different, it’s ours.”