The word Continue flickered once and dissolved into the mist.
Silence followed.Not the kind of silence that waits for noise—the kind that's alive, curious, listening.
✦
[ System Notice : Realm Status – Unstable. ][ Energy Source Detected Beneath Author Layer. ]
Arjun's ember pulsed faintly in my chest. It's still down there.
"Still?" I asked.
Whatever you woke up—it hasn't stopped moving.
I looked down. The white surface under my boots rippled like water.A faint hum rolled through the air—steady, mechanical, almost like breathing.
✦
"Feels… alive."
Feels hungry, Arjun corrected.
"Great. Add that to the list."
✦
The horizon shifted.The sky darkened—not with clouds, but with lines of text forming above me, bending and crossing until they became shapes.
A paragraph floated past like a whale breaching from ink.Another followed—this one incomplete, its edges fraying into static.
[ Warning : Unwritten Entities Surfacing. ]
"Define 'unwritten,'" I muttered.
