Chapter 25 The Trestle's Trap
"The Bell has chosen Ben and the person trying to save him may be the one who kills him."
The signal came from the coast.
Not from the lighthouse.
Not from the Bell Tower.
From somewhere lower, hidden beyond the black line of rocks where the sea broke unevenly against the shore.
Cass noticed it...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Midnight Train to Nowhere
2. Chapter 2 Lanterns in the Fog
3. Chapter 3 The Last Ticket
4. Chapter 4 Echoes of the Bell
5. Chapter 5 Rain-Soaked Promises
6. Chapter 6 The Weight of Water
7. Chapter 7 A Shadow Inside
8. Chapter 8 The Hidden Way In
9. Chapter 9 The Ghost in the Corner
10. Chapter 10 The Weight of a Lie
11. Chapter 11 The Carving
12. Chapter 12 The Thread of Fate
13. Chapter 13 The Terrible Price
14. Chapter 14 The Final Failsafe
15. Chapter 15 The Final Confession
16. Chapter 16 The Abandoned Melody
17. Chapter 17 The Weight of Departure
18. Chapter 18 M. Cole - 1985
19. Chapter 19 The Indigo Promise
20. Chapter 20 The Latch and the Lie
21. Chapter 21 The Silver Sigils
22. Chapter 22 The Master Key
23. Chapter 23 The Survivor's Code
24. Chapter 24 The Runaway Ride
25. Chapter 25 The Trestle's Trap
26. Chapter 26 The Sound of the Joke
27. Chapter 27 The Indigo Lockbox
28. Chapter 28 What the Bell Demands Last
29. Chapter 29 The Clean Slate
30. Chapter 30 The Original Keeper's Ghost
31. Chapter 31 The Unwritten Rule
32. Chapter 32 The Question Mark
33. Chapter 33 The Final Inventory
34. Chapter 34 The Thirteenth Chime
35. Chapter 35 The Human Ledger
36. Chapter 36 The Unspoken Wish
37. Chapter 37 The Absent Score
38. Chapter 38 The Hidden Melody
39. Chapter 39 Ten Resonant Notes
40. Chapter 40 The False Beam
41. Chapter 41 The Split-Second Symphony
42. Chapter 42 The Uncoded Confession
43. Chapter 43 The Fragile New Rhythm
44. Chapter 44 The Rusty Promise
45. Chapter 45 The Threshold of Echoes
46. Chapter 46 The Exit Strategy
47. Chapter 47 The Anchored Truth
48. Chapter 48 The Crimson Mirror
49. Chapter 49 The Mother of All Lies
50. Chapter 50 The Horizon of Choice
51. Chapter 51 The Grey Interlude
52. Chapter 52 The Golden Gardener
53. Chapter 53 The Shoreline Miracle
54. Chapter 54 The Gilded Cage
55. Chapter 55 The Iron Crag Ultimatum
56. Chapter 56 The Architect of Shadows
57. Chapter 57 The Echo of the Fifth Name
58. Chapter 58 The Judas Letter
59. Chapter 59 The Choice of the Compass
60. Chapter 60 The Resonance of Sacrifice
61. Chapter 61 The Cellar of Shadows
62. Chapter 62 The Third Note
63. Chapter 63 The Memory of Ash
64. Chapter 64 The Mirror of the Tide
65. Chapter 65 The Eighth Horizon
66. Chapter 66 The Ink of the Infinite
67. Chapter 67 The Unlocked Door
68. Chapter 68 The Protagonist’s Rebellion
69. Chapter 69 The King’s Iron
70. Chapter 70 The Mouth of the Dragon
71. Chapter 71 The Whispers of Willow Lane
72. Chapter 72 The Cost of a Happy Ending
73. Chapter 73 The Ghost of a Touch
74. Chapter 74 The Space Between Us
75. Chapter 75 The Paper Heart
76. Chapter 76 The Cost of Admission
77. Chapter 77 The Typo in the Soul
78. Chapter 78 The Keeper’s Ghost
79. Chapter 79 The Weight of Two Keys
80. Chapter 80 The Publisher’s Debt
81. Chapter 81 The Mirror of the Deep
82. Chapter 82 The Architect’s Grave
83. Chapter 83 The Heart of the Tide
84. Chapter 84 The New Management
85. Chapter 85 The Widow’s Warning
86. Chapter 86 The Third Secret
87. Chapter 87 The Paper Village
88. Chapter 88 The Admission of the Heart
89. Chapter 89 The Fleet of the Real
90. Chapter 90 The Shadow of the Successor
91. Chapter 91 The Lens of the Living
92. Chapter 92 The Bread of Homecoming
93. Chapter 93 The Empty Page
94. Chapter 94 The Cellar of Whispers
95. Chapter 95 The Puppet’s Promise
96. Chapter 96 The Capital of Pale Ink
97. Chapter 97 The Basement of the Unwritten
98. Chapter 98 The Harmony of the Breaking Gear
99. Chapter 99 The Architect's Darkroom
100. Chapter 100 The Salt and the Soil
101. Chapter 101 The Choice of the Living
102. Chapter 102 The Mirror and the Mouthpiece
103. Chapter 103 The Edge of the Frame
104. Chapter 104 The Harvest of Echoes
105. Chapter 105 The Tower of Bone and Ink
106. Chapter 106 The Stone of the First Light
107. Chapter 107 The Line in the Sand
108. Chapter 108 The Sound of the New World
109. Chapter 109 The Shadow in the Frame
110. Chapter 110 The Price of the Spotlight
111. Chapter 111 The Red Soil's Welcome
112. Chapter 112 The Cracked Mirror
113. Chapter 113 The Shadow of the Contract
114. Chapter 114 The Passenger in the Black Carriage
115. Chapter 115 The City of Glass and Gears
116. Chapter 116 The Shadow in the Red Soil
117. Chapter 117 The Final Exposure
118. Chapter 118 The Gilded Lens
119. Chapter 119 The Flicker in the Lens
120. Chapter 120 The Crack in the Porcelain
121. Chapter 121 The Shadow in the Vault
122. Chapter 122 The Shattered Mirror
123. Chapter 123 The Silent Symphony
124. Chapter 124 The Ghost in the Glass
125. Chapter 125 The Echo on the Shore
126. Chapter 126 The Weight of Reality
127. Chapter 127 The Source of the Tide
128. Chapter 128 The Violet Horizon
129. Chapter 129 The Hall of Echoes
130. Chapter 130 The Museum of Us
131. Chapter 131 The Flaw in the Perfect
132. Chapter 132 The Architect of Shadows
133. Chapter 133 The Bleeding Note
134. Chapter 134 The Price of a Glance
135. Chapter 135 The Salt and the Stone
136. Chapter 136 The Anchor of the Earth
137. Chapter 137 The Bridge of Ash
138. Chapter 138 The Glass Mirror
139. Chapter 139 The First Draft
140. Chapter 140 The Editor
141. Chapter 141 The God in the Machine
142. Chapter 142 The Last Frame
143. Chapter 143 The Awakening
144. Chapter 144 The Shadow at the Door
145. Chapter 145 The Moon’s Hunger
146. Chapter 146 The Dead Alpha
147. Chapter 147 The Traitor's Moon
148. Chapter 148 The Cradle of the Moon
149. Chapter 149 The Ghost in the Wires
150. Chapter 150 The Ritual of the Oak
151. Chapter 151 The First-Born’s Shadow
152. Chapter 152 The Frozen Mirror
153. Chapter 153 The Silver Shattering
154. Chapter 154 The Relic’s Song
155. Chapter 155 The Altar of the Peaks
156. Chapter 156 The Source's Judgment
157. Chapter 157 The City of Glass and Stone
158. Chapter 158 The Primordial Debt
159. Chapter 159 The City of Iron and Bone
160. Chapter 160 The Needle of the Source
161. Chapter 161 The Silver Whistle
162. Chapter 162 The Silent Song
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