Chapter 3597: The Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Echo: The Weight of Silence

Kaelen had not spoken a word since the Unveiling. His silence, at first a personal act of defiance, had become something else entirely: a symbol.

For the Stone-Speakers, it was the silence of guilt, of a man who had lost his faith and his voice.

For the Questioners, it was the silence of a held breath, of a world on the cusp of a revelation.

And for Kaelen, it was a weight, a heavy cloak he had chosen to wear, and he was beginning to feel its crushing burden.