Extracted from Journal Entry #017 – “The Burden of Echoes”

  Date: Unknown | Estimated: Post-Year 2108 | Author: Redacted

  “When the sky fractures and the ground forgets its name,

  four echoes shall rise from flame, storm, stone, and truth.

  Born not to rule, but to remember—

  chosen not for strength, but for the scars they carry.”

  “Each shall bear the mark,

  not gifted, but earned in pain.

  One of guilt.

  One of fear.

  One of shame.

  One of silence.”

  “Together, they will awaken the sleeping core.

  Not to save what was lost,

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  but to heal what was broken—

  and silence the hollow voice

  that would twist the world into one mind.”

  “They will not be remembered for what they destroyed...

  but for what they chose to forgive.”

  I should’ve burned it.

  Let the flame consume ink, thought, and time.

  I should’ve buried it beneath the marrow of a forgotten world—

  somewhere no mind could unearth its voice,

  no soul could wake its curse.

  But I didn’t.

  I couldn’t.

  Because some truths are not spoken—they are exhaled.

  Not written, but etched in the bones of the world.

  They cling to silence like breath on glass,

  waiting for the moment someone finally looks… and sees.

  And so I wrote the prophecy.

  Not to guide them.

  Not to save them.

  But to mark them.

  To brand fate into the skin of those who would come after—

  children born from ash and error,

  whose scars would speak louder than any crown ever could.

  They will walk roads I cracked.

  They will carry names I once gave meaning.

  And they will hate me—

  for the truth I could not undo.