[Verse 1]
Level negative forty-five
Fold Eighteen, the dark between the dark
Three hundred thousand years of silence
Nothing here has moved, nothing left a mark
Corvus hasn’t spoken since the last age
Ronin meditates — that’s just the word for bored
Bolt cleaned her crossbow forty thousand times
Crusher’s counting legs — still six, still wrong
[Pre-Chorus]
Then the board lit up
First time in forever
I reached across the feed
And I read
[Chorus]
Chaos — one point three billion
Disorder — call it noise
Council dogs on a leash they don’t know they’re wearing
Soldiers dressed as boys
Then I scroll — then I stop
Solara — climbing, forty levels in
That crew — twelve names, twelve faces, still breathing
Target locked
We move to Fold 1
We move to Fold 1
[Verse 2]
Noctis dropped down from the ceiling
(she was just hanging there — that’s normal for her)
Wraith flickered into something solid
Sable found the edge he hasn’t touched in years
Grimoire closed her ancient book
Scorch looked up from staring at the wall
Toxin smiled — and that is never ever good
And Void said nothing
Because nothing needed saying at all
[Pre-Chorus 2]
We do not hurry
We have never had to hurry
Nothing in all these hundreds of thousands of years
Was ever worth the walk
[Chorus]
Chaos — council noise
Disorder — more of the same
We don’t chase bounty for the board
We don’t answer to their names
But Solara — alive and loud and climbing
That crew — wrong in all the right ways
They are not afraid of the dark
And that —
Is new
We move to Fold 1
We move to Fold 1
[Bridge — Void, alone, low]
We have been asleep
We forgot what it feels like
To want something
Something is alive in Fold 1
Something is burning in Fold 1
[Outro]
Fold 18 goes quiet
Crew rises
And they walk
Toward the light
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