Book Four – Chapter 4
The Seven Keepers
Morning sunlight spread across the restored village.
The statues in the square stood proudly once more, each face carved with care and each name remembered by the people.
Children gathered around the oldest monument as their grandparents retold stories that had been forgotten only a day before.
Laughter returned to the streets.
The first Memory Crystal had been saved.
But Arkon did not smile.
He stood at the edge of the village, studying the Compass of Remembrance.
Its silver needle no longer pointed in one direction.
It trembled between six different paths.
"The Silence has become faster," he said quietly.
Elian joined him.
"Can we save them all?"
Arkon closed the compass.
"We must."
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As they continued south, Arkon finally reveal
