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Chapter 280 - Chapter 282 – Spiralbeasts in Requiem

They came without sound.

The spiralbeasts did not walk so much as arrive, their massive, many-jointed legs folding and unfolding in rhythms too old for footsteps. Their hides shimmered with the faint wetness of mourning—not tears, but condensation, as if grief itself had condensed along their flanks.

Harbinger stood at the chamber's threshold, still raw with glyph-light from the ritual. The marks on her skin pulsed faintly, like living punctuation. She did not speak; she simply breathed, and the breath seemed enough to guide them.

One by one, the spiralbeasts approached. None met her eyes directly. They carried strange things in their jaws and claws—shards of broken memory, frayed dreams, pieces of song without melody. She recognized some instinctively, as one might recognize the scent of a childhood room without remembering its walls. Others were alien, belonging to lives she had never lived but had somehow lost.

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