Poetics__
Valhalla shifts again as a new harmony threatens to break the Warrior apart. Inside the hall of memory, Thalia Storm-Born-the fiercest echo Kheros carries-awakens with a will of her own. She is not a whisper. She is not a shadow. She remembers everything, and she refuses to fade.
While Kheros struggles to balance Thalia's storm with his own identity, a challenger arrives from the desert realm of the Unbroken Flame. Ahron, a warrior who believes souls must remain singular, sees Kheros's fractured spirit as corruption-something that must be purified through battle.
As scars form inside and outside the Warrior, the Entity shifts in the dark, nudging Thalia toward fear, and fear toward rebellion. But in the heart of the duel, Kheros learns that survival will not come from suppressing the awakened voice within him... but from forging a new kind of silence, shaped by two wills breathing together.
In the Hall of Echoes, unity becomes the deadliest weapon of all.