Chapter 69 The Inevitable Self

• Some enemies can be defeated. Others must be outlived.
• The fire-woven door blazed like a living sun, threads twisting and reweaving themselves faster than Kira’s eyes could follow. It pulsed in time with her heartbeat.
• And standing before it—blocking the way—was her. Older, taller, wrapped in a cloak of the loom’s red-gold strands, as if the Archive itself had crowned her its chosen. Her expression was calm, almost pitying, as though she were looking at a child who didn’t yet understand the world.