🌲 *The South Threshold* — Reid Hershel steps across the seam of cold air at the edge of the misty forest and walks with Fara into the wood his mother kept for twenty silent years.

🪵 Tonight's chapter: The bargain begins. Reid carries seven journal entries, twin short swords Mere and Eben, and a leather pouch of dark dust the wood itself left for him. The path bends. The dogs will not follow. The air changes a stride's width past the last tree. Inside, the wood sets a sentence neither of them can read — bone and pinecone scales and a single black feather laid at the center. Fara reads it one way. Reid reads it another. In the clearing, the honey-eyed thing returns, and this time it is not alone. A taller figure stands behind it, faceless, with arms like winter branches, and the bargain the wood has been waiting twenty years to make is finally spoken aloud.

⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 The dark has a weight to it
06:18 The grass is still wet
14:32 The pines lean back
22:11 There is no path under us
30:07 The air around me is different
37:54 The pulse is inside my chest
40:35 The lamp gutters once and steadies

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