Cold-reader beat: Hesitation-in-Silence did not offer a comforting platitude, nor did he attempt to mend the shattered fragments of the elder’s certainty. Instead, he met the old Shepherd’s gaze with a quiet empathy, a profound and unshakable stillness that seemed to absorb the tremor in Anchor-of-Ages’ voice.
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Arc beat: Anchor-of-Ages from crumbling certainties toward reconciliation with his exiled student — and the uncarved stone in his palm.
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