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Chapter 295 - Chapter 297 – The Alphabet Revolt

It began with a stutter.

Codexia had been attempting to anchor the fractures left by the Self-Erasing Scribes—rewriting the erased streets, coaxing houses back into form with careful breaths of ink—when her Codex twitched against her will. A line she spoke aloud faltered.

"I will restore you to—"

But the word stone did not arrive. Instead, her lips formed storm.

The building before her reshaped violently, its roof unraveling into thunderclouds, walls hissing into rain. Citizens screamed as their homes dissolved into weather.

Codexia staggered back, clutching her mouth. Her own syllables had betrayed her.

At first she thought it was exhaustion, or the aftertaste of the glyphs still burning in her hand. But when she opened the Codex within her ribs, she saw it plainly: her letters had broken rank.

The alphabet was writhing.

Her A's had elongated into blades.

Her O's were weeping holes that pulled at the margins of the page.

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