After the storm crossing, Kael returns to a settlement already beginning to change. Quiet choices replace fear, old patterns loosen, and the blue stone’s presence spreads like an unseen tide.
When a small group steps forward to follow him into the desert, the journey widens beyond survival toward something greater.
Guided only by a compass and the faint pulse of distant groves, Kael takes the helm of a living skiff and flies into a storm that does not resist him – a storm that opens.
On the far side, a new horizon waits, not an ending, but the first glimpse of a world beginning to wake.
Shard of the Forgotten Grove: Chapter 3 Ripples in the Rust
February 22, 2026 by anarchistbanjo
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