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Chapter 29: Light Over the Mountains
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2026-06-17 18:00:14Theron shook his head gently.
“Pain is part of being alive. Struggle is part of growing. You thought you could save people from all pain, so you took away their choice. You took away their ability to grow, to learn, to become stronger. You saved them from nothing… because you turned their lives into something that wasn’t really living at all.”
He took a step closer to her, his voice steady but kind.
“You built a cage and called it peace. You
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