Nobody spoke.
Not because they were afraid.
Because the words backup copy of reality refused to make sense.
Midnight looked from the impossible door to the woman standing before it.
The Librarian calmly set her stack of books on a nearby stone as if she had announced the weather instead of rewriting everything they believed about existence.
Kael finally broke the silence.
"What does that mean?"
The Librarian folded her hands behind her back.
"It means exactly what I said."
She glanced at the enormous silver door.
"If reality had ever completely collapsed... if Azhrael had succeeded... if the Hollow Silence had erased everything..."
She tapped the door lightly.
"...this Archive would have rebuilt the world."
The throne pulsed.
A slow, sorrowful pulse.
Recognition.
Midnight f
