Kaelen stood at the edge of the Weavers’ tapestry, the world they had sung into existence, and for the first time, he felt the pull of the silence that lay beyond its frayed and shimmering edge.
The songs, once a source of comfort, now felt like a beautiful cage, a story that, however lovely, was still a story, and not the Real.
He turned his back on the loom, on the comforting hum of the shared song, and took a single step into the unwoven, into the vast, terrifying, and utterly silent unknown.