The Lie That Replaced Truth: 2

The world is beginning to change - quietly, dangerously, and far beyond the reach of the Covenant's control.Rowan's awakening in the grove was only the first tremor. The pulse that answered him has not faded; it has grown. The forests shift around him as he travels north, carrying echoes of memories older than kingdoms, older than the Covenant, older than the lie that shaped the world.The Covenant feels the change as well. Their grip tightens. Their agents move in silence. And their fear is unmistakable: if another Fragment wakes, the balance they have enforced for generations may collapse.But the deeper Rowan travels into the northern wilds, the more the world reveals. Storms move in patterns that should not exist. Old magic stirs beneath the roots. And a distant, forbidden pulse begins to call to him - steady, insistent, alive.The lie that replaced truth is weakening.And Rowan is caught between the safety it once offered and the dangerous, ancient truth rising to meet him.