Chapter 40 - The Weight of Welcome
Chapter 40: The Weight of Welcome
Topher
The elevator hummed beneath his feet, each second of descent stretching like wet thread. He stood still, back straight, the duffel bag strap digging into his shoulder as he rehearsed words he’d never say. There was no script for this — no way to pre...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 - Protocol
2. Chapter 2 - The Name
3. Chapter 3 - In the Room
4. Chapter 4 - Glass and Thread
5. Chapter 5 - Measured Steps
6. Chapter 6 - Ritual Failure
7. Chapter 7 - The Breaking Point
8. Chapter 8 - The Neophyte
9. Chapter 9 - The Seal
10. Chapter 10 - Echoes in Stone
11. Chapter 11 - Two Heartbeats
12. Chapter 12 - First Silence
13. Chapter 13 - Stillness and Shape
14. Chapter 14 - A Deliberation of Shadows
15. Chapter 15 - Terms of Transition
16. Chapter 16 -In Transit
17. Chapter 17 - Echoes in the Hall
18. Chapter 18 - Thirst and Thread
19. Chapter 19 - Ash and Apology
20. Chapter 20 - Porcelain and Perspective
21. Chapter 21 - The Wild Between
22. Chapter 22 - A Week in Quiet
23. Chapter 23 - Return on a Leash
24. Chapter 24 - Fragments Out of Place
25. Chapter 25 - Circles of Influence
26. Chapter 26 - ???
27. Chapter 27 - Where She Stands
28. Chapter 28 - Threaded Reflections
29. Chapter 29 - Shaped in Echoes
30. Chapter 30 - Measured Reentry
31. Chapter 31 - Shadow Tether
32. Chapter 32 - The Threshold
33. Chapter 33 - Tethered Heat
34. Chapter 34 - Smoke and Honey
35. Chapter 35 - The Weight of What Comes Next
36. Chapter 36 - Aftertaste
37. Chapter 37 - The Quiet Weapon
38. Chapter 38 - The Thread
39. Chapter 39 - Echoes in the Thread
40. Chapter 40 - The Weight of Welcome
41. Chapter 41 - Tethers
42. Chapter 42 - The Weight Carried
43. Chapter 43 - Fever in the Veins
44. Chapter 44 - Stranger in the Mirror
45. Chapter 45 - The Cooling Flame
46. Chapter 46 - Between Teeth and Mercy
47. Chapter 47- The Surge
48. Chapter 48 - The Thread That Leads
49. Chapter 49 - The Wake of Power
50. Chapter 50 - The Council Stirs
51. Chapter 51 - Field Lines
52. Chapter 52 - The Threshold
53. Chapter 53 - The Center Holds
54. Chapter 54 - The Terms
55. Chapter 55 - The Echo
56. Chapter 56 - Between Breaths
57. Chapter 57 - Emberlight
58. Chapter 58 - Wakefire
59. Chapter 59 - Faultline
60. Chapter 60 - Under Watch
61. Chapter 61 - Beneath the Current
62. Chapter 62 - Threadbare
63. Chapter 63 - Measured by Heart
64. Chapter 64 - Ash in the Veins
65. Chapter 65 - Red and Real
66. Chapter 66 - Pulse of the Wild
67. Chapter 67 - Ember in the Blood
68. Chapter 68 – Lines in the Marble
69. Chapter 69 – Waking the Web
70. Chapter 70 – The Weight of Stillness
71. Chapter 71 – Toward the Gravity
72. Chapter 72 - The Threshold
73. Chapter 73 - Offered and Answered
74. Chapter 74 - Taken and Known
75. Chapter 75 - After the Flame
76. Chapter 76 - What Was Given
77. Chapter 77 - Convergence
78. Chapter 78 - Nothing Asked, Everything Given
79. Chapter 79 - The Thing He Didn’t Say
80. Chapter 80 - His Unmaking
81. Chapter 81 - That, Too, Was a Beginning
82. Chapter 82: Stillness After Thunder
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