Chapter 169
The Room Beneath the Altar
Room Thirty-Four contained one object: the original witness coin.
It carried no face now. Only a blank circle.
Mara picked it up.
“This began with a choice between two children.”
Claire took the coin.
“It ends with no one choosing for them.”
The coin dissolved.
The archive opened a final map.
Rooms Thirty-Five through Forty stood in a line beneath Bellwether.
At the end was a final door marked THE LAST RECORD.