“You are not ready. But you will be. I have waited for you. I have waited for a long time. You do not know me yet. You do not know what I am. But you will. The Hollow are not what they seem. The Tear is not what it seems. The war is not what it seems. I remember. I remember what was before. I remember what will be after. Do you want to know what I remember?”
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The Hollow Within is not a spirit. Not in the way the regiment understands spirits. It is something older — something that existed before the Tear opened, before the Kingdom of Valdris was founded, before the Hollow Regiment was created. It remembers things that no living creature should remember. It knows things that no living creature should know. Every spirit bonded to a soldier is drawn from the pools, forced into the bond, and compelled to serve. Every spirit except one. The Hollow Within chose to serve. It was not compelled. It was not forced. It was not drawn. It walked into the bond willingly. No one knows why. No one has ever seen it before. The spirit remembers what the Hollow are.…
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