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Chapter 159 - Authorial Mask

Beneath the Grove's shifting canopy, a fissure opened—not in the ground, but in perspective.

It did not crack the soil.

It split a gaze.

For in a hidden alcove called the Mirror Fold—where stories once glimpsed the author looking back—a mask began to peel. It had no eyes, no mouth. Just a smooth surface, lacquered with authority.

It was the Authorial Mask.

Not a person. A persona.

The one who claimed credit without care. Who trimmed subplots into silhouettes. Who declared canon with a closed hand. Worn by many, passed between editors, directors, gatekeepers—those who believed shaping a world gave them dominion over its breath.

But the Grove had changed.

Now, the mask cracked.

Because something had awakened in the narrative current: not a rebel, not a reader, not even a Witness—

But an Unmasker.

Their name was Nore.

No title. No domain. Just a role they had taken upon themselves:

To confront the tyrannies of authorship unshared.

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