The Frayed Vein

He woke up after a year of silence.

They told him the world had moved on-that his parents were still gone, his title erased, and the Loom he once served now frayed beyond repair.

Then came the High Council's bargain.
Mend the Loom, and we will give you the truth-and the justice your family deserves.

But how does one fix the very weave of existence while stripped of power, and faith, and place?

Jae was once the youngest Threadkeeper to lead a house-the prodigy who made the Loom sing. Now, he walks through corridors that no longer remember him. His peers avert their eyes, and Mindel, the boy he once loved, has become someone colder, distant, rewritten by time.

Still, something stirs beneath the Loom's pulse, a wrongness only he can sense. Threads shift where they shouldn't. Shadows whisper names long buried. And somewhere deep in the weave, something watches him back.

He wasn't supposed to wake.
But he did.
And the Loom is breaking.

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THE PHASE THETA
✦ Story Genre: Science Fiction · Modern fantasy · School mystery
✦ Setting: Set in a Philippine university campus
✦ Manifestations: Threads from the Loom that governs the entire Universe
✦ Theme: Discovery. Disbelief. And fight against everything that caused it all.

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