The Ink That Burned the World - Chapter 3: The City Beneath the Breath of Time
In the moment between thoughts and consequence, there stood a city not marked on any map—Silens. It was older than the sand it stood upon, forged from time’s bleeding edge. No gates. No flags. Just silence. Eternal. Undisturbed. And beneath it, truths that dared not rise. The Arrival Revn stepped through the veil of fog that acted as a natural curtain between the known and the forgotten. His boots sank into ashen soil, the air around him thick with age and weight. Behind him, Ellion followed, his white cloak now stained with the red dust that hung in the air like unsettled guilt. “Is this the place?” Ellion asked, voice hushed. Revn nodded. “Where the first Rewrite began. And where it nearly ended.” They were both drawn to it not by directions or legends, but by instinct—as if the city had called them back, not for answers, but for confession. Silens: A City with No Sound Silens didn’t breathe. The walls were carved from obsidian and chronostone—a mineral only found in worlds tha...