Chapter 122: The Simplifier's Gambit
The Doctrine of Ghosts became a new thread in the network's tapestry. Lyra's maps of dormant resonance were copied and sent to Frosthold, the Barrens, and the moorland clans. Scout teams, now called "Remembrancers," began gentle, probing work in other "grey" zones, using story-suppers, marked paths, and recovered songs to reawaken the land's sleeping specificity. The work was slow, subtle, and deeply rewarding. Reports trickled in of a wildflower thought extinct returning to a remembered meadow, of a local dialect recovering playful old words, of dreams becoming more vivid in villages that had engaged in the practice.
