[Threadlink Notice: Shared Crown Anchor Detected]
Fragment Location: Flame Sync Point (Trinity Flame)
Access Restriction:
🔒 Locked behind Emotional Seal – Origin Memory Required
Proceed with care. Bond destabilization possible.
I'd seen Trinity fight gods and walk through fire like it was water.
But I'd never seen her afraid of herself.
Not like this.
The system confirmed it. One of the three Crown Fragments—the key to restoring my Sovereign rights—was hidden inside her.
Not just her soul.
Her flame.
She sat cross-legged in the Thread Chamber, eyes shut, brow damp with sweat.
Her Lockbrand was glowing erratically—wild glyphs sparking off it like flares from a dying star.
Echo-13 ran diagnostics beside us. "This isn't normal flare fluctuation. Something's living in her fire. A memory locked in recursive heat."
"She's suppressing it," Orion added. "Whatever it is… she buried it deep."
I stepped forward, knelt, and placed my hand on her shoulder.
"Let me in."
She didn't open her eyes. "You'll get burned."
"I already am."
[Lucid Sovereign Command: /sync.flame(depth: max)]
Consent Detected: Trinity Flame
Initiating Deep Sync Memory Access
The world turned to smoke.
We fell together—into her flame.
Not metaphor.
Literal memory-space.
A burning field of white ash, beneath a sky of red thread.
There, standing before a collapsed Temple of Fire—
Was Trinity.
Younger.
Barefoot.
Blood on her hands.
"This is where I was made," she whispered.
The scene rippled. Voices. Screams. Orders shouted by Reapers in gold-plated robes.
Then the fire came.
Not summoned.
Unleashed.
A small girl consumed by divine ignition.
No trial.
No permission.
Just raw fury given form.
I turned to her—our Trinity.
"You've never told anyone this."
"I couldn't," she whispered. "Because if they knew I didn't survive the ignition… they'd know what I am."
The temple burned around us.
I saw it in the flame.
Trinity didn't awaken her Lockbrand in a test.
She died.
And her fire refused to let her go.
[CROWN FRAGMENT LOCATED]
Type: Soul-Fused Sovereign Spark
Class: Rebirth Anchor
Status: Dormant
Command: /accept?
"I can't hold it anymore," Trinity said.
"You don't have to," I replied.
And reached for the flame.
It didn't hurt.
It welcomed me.
[CROWN FRAGMENT ABSORBED – 1 of 3 RECOVERED]
Trinity's Flame now syncs with Graveyard Authority
New Trait: Sovereign-Bound Flamekeeper (Shared)
Rebirth Limitations: Removed
Flame Sync: 100%
She fell against me, trembling, breathing hard.
"It wasn't just a burden," she whispered.
"It was a promise."
"If I died once and came back burning—then I'll do it again."
Outside the memory space, her body stabilized.
The flame calmed.
And across the Graveyard—
The first shard of the Crown began to glow.