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Chapter 10 - The Loom of Accord Convenes

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The Loom of Accord was never truly still.

Its chamber — carved not into stone, but into threads of divine concept — wove and rewove itself with every passing moment. Each god who stepped within shaped the structure. And now, eight presences cast their weight across the hall.

Where Kael-Vorr stood, the floor pulsed like war drums, flickering with crimson embers. Behind him stretched hazy, bleeding battlefields, as if every conflict across time bled through his presence.

Near him, Na'thira's space bloomed with spectral vines and breath-like winds. The atmosphere softened, wrapping the senses like a lullaby — yet beneath that gentleness flowed immense, ancient order. The domain of growth, soul-patterns, and quiet repair.

Eilshen stood beside a veil. Always thin. Always just short of transparency. It pulsed with truths unrevealed — like a mirror reflecting half the world. His voice had not yet spoken, but already his presence whispered.

Across the room, a cube of light unfolded silently.

Tharos, the Machine-Scribe, constructed himself out of shifting lattices and spirals of formulae. Not divine in posture, but logical. Mechanical. Patient. Within his orbit drifted broken scripts — fragments of systems lost, rewritten, or never completed.

Above them all, the great circle shifted — and into it stepped Varneth, the Bound Circle. With him came the sound of chains dragging on stone. Not oppressive — simply absolute. The laws that bound empires and gods alike followed in his wake.

Vel Eshtar appeared not with movement, but ignition. One side of the hall flared with judgmental flame; the other froze with cold, unflinching restraint. The God of Trial made no greeting. He watched.

Orrid manifested last — or perhaps he was always there, unnoticed. The corners of the chamber curled inward, space compressing around him. He was stillness. Isolation. A locked sky made flesh.

Tharos rotated once. Then his voice, shaped from absolute syntax, spoke.

Tharos: "An anomaly has reached the threshold. Its classification — unstable soul-weave, dual anchor. Not divine interference. No divine approval."

A ghostly interface projected between them — a flickering recreation of Shane and Itsuki's joined soul-thread. Incomplete. Improvised. Adaptable.

Kael-Vorr's eyes narrowed. His pulse scorched the floor.

Kael-Vorr: "Adaptable systems? Bloodline mutation without rite? This borders theft."

Na'thira, soothing but firm, answered.

Na'thira: "And yet, it follows natural law. A vine does not need permission to find new ground."

Tharos: "The system — originally bloodline control protocol. An early model. Lost."

The cube flickered again. More pieces — memories, logs, corrupted fragments.

Varneth stepped forward. Chains coiled behind him like snakes.

Varneth: "Has divine law been broken?"

Tharos: "No. Protocol breached, but not overwritten. A loophole. Not sabotage."

Kael-Vorr grunted, unsatisfied. Vel Eshtar remained silent.

Then Eilshen, quiet and curved like a shadow, offered his only sentence:

Eilshen: "The soul-weave bears a foreign stitch. Woven not by fate alone."

A pause.

Only Tharos reacted. His algorithms shifted briefly.

Tharos: "Interference… possible. But concealed. Review incomplete."

Varneth frowned. "If the weave was tampered, who masked it?"

Eilshen, veiled in implication, said nothing.

Orrid's voice cut through like gravity.

Orrid: "Contain it. Fold the anomaly into the Dome. Prevent further variance."

Na'thira: "Containment would kill it."

Kael-Vorr: "If it breaks the balance, let it be broken. Systems are not toys."

At last, Vel Eshtar turned. His flame licked toward the ghost-system, then retreated.

Vel Eshtar: "It does not lie. It simply... is. Unrefined. Unjudged. Let it justify itself."

Then — one final sound.

Not voice. Not word.

A spiral shimmered. A flicker. A presence. Not a god in body — but in echo.

A pulse of incomplete code rippled across the Loom.

Xirys had heard. And though absent, he watched.

Varneth exhaled. "Then the vote proceeds."

— PROPOSAL: Observation Protocol

— Conditions: Limited Support, No Execution

— Review in next Spiral Shift

Hands did not rise. Yet the Loom reacted.

Chains uncoiled. Vines loosened. Flames dimmed. Space bent.

Tharos: "Majority. Observation granted. Reparations… pending."

The Loom twisted again. The gods began to fade.

And behind them, the anomaly remained.

Watched.

Unbroken.

But not alone.

The silence that followed was not peace.

It was the breath before the consequence.

Before the gods moved again.

Before the world remembered what it had forgotten.

And somewhere, far from the Loom, two souls stirred.

Entwined.

Waiting.

Beginning to burn.

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