CHAPTER 79: VALMIRA’S REWRITE

Without magic, Valmira did the unthinkable.

She rewrote the Codex—by hand. Ink, quill, parchment. Every line manually copied, translated, reimagined.

"What are you doing?" I asked, watching her under torchlight.

"Writing a new world," she replied, eyes never leaving the page.

"Aren’t you afraid it won’t work?"

"No," she said. "Because for the first time, the rules are ours."

I sat beside her in silence.

Watched her hand move.

And realized: she wasn’t preserving the past.

She was authoring the future.

One sentence at a time.