[Verse 1]
I called them back before the morning
The garden held a different kind of cold
Something pressing at the edges
Something that the night before had not been bold
Themis arrived first — she already knew
Nemesis came second with her ledger held in both hands
Time and Fate sat close together
The way they do when something neither understands
[Pre-Chorus]
And I told them what I felt
At the edge of what I see
Something that was distant in the dark
Is learning how to breathe
Not a flicker anymore
Not a signal
Not a presence barely born
Something building in the space between the order
Something choosing to be more
[Chorus]
Disorder and chaos
Coming into form
The Hollow is not what they described
It is something that outgrew the warning
Disorder and chaos
Older than it should be
The one before me sealed the last one
But this time
Something got to it before me
Three hundred thousand years of holding past the ending
Fed it
While the twins were trying to converge
And now the Hollow has the weight of all that waiting
And I have just arrived
And that is what we’re up against
[Verse 2]
Nemesis opens her ledger
Lays it flat
Three hundred thousand years
Of energy the order held intact
Every year he stayed past the convergence
Fed the other side the same
He sealed the last one yes
But sealing is not ending
And what he sealed
Did not stay tame
Aion reads the long view
He goes pale
Kairos says: the timing was already compromised
Before I arrived
And Ananke —
Ananke doesn’t speak
She closes her eyes
And I understand
That even necessity
Has something it cannot guarantee
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And Time takes my hand again
But this time differently
Not the pride of the arrival
The fear that I might see
What he has always seen
What the one before me carried
Beyond all that we know
Three hundred thousand years of sealing something
That kept deciding
It could grow
[Chorus]
Disorder and chaos
Coming into form
The Hollow is not what they described
It is something that outgrew the warning
Disorder and chaos
Older than it should be
The one before me sealed the last one
But this time
Something got to it before me
[Bridge — SOLARA addresses the council directly]
Here is what he did not tell me
Here is what the hand did not give
He sealed the last Hollow
When it was young
Before it learned to live
This one had three hundred thousand extra years
To find its edges
To find its shape
To find the difference between
Being sealed
And being contained
And being free
He stayed too long
And I do not blame him
He was afraid to leave
And something used that fear
As food
And now I am here
Younger than he was at his first crisis
Facing something that is older and has fed
And I am going to have to do
What he could not
Not seal it
End it.
[Final Chorus — SOLARA standing, certain]
Disorder and chaos
That is what it is
But disorder has a pattern
If you learn to read the fizz
Disorder and chaos
Built on borrowed time
Three hundred thousand years of someone else’s ending
Is still three hundred thousand years
And that much weight
Always leaves a line
I am not the one who sealed the last one
I am the one who ended what he feared
I did not seal the twins’ convergence
I arrived because someone finally cleared
And I will not seal this either
[Outro — the council sits. Planning begins.]
The garden is cold.
The Raven is awake.
Themis opens a new page.
Nemesis recalculates.
Time and Fate hold hands and do not speak.
SOLARA looks at the sky
Where the Hollow is growing
And she does not look away.
This is the new order’s first crisis.
And she was built for this.