The Moonlink Girl had no name.
Only a glyph burned into her shoulder blade—Twisting.Changing.Growing.
"They call me a Host," she whispered, as she floated beneath the ancient moonlight."But I remember writing beasts into existence... before the world called them myths."
Her voice carried like wind across the old forest.Not spoken.Recalled.
Scene: The Memory-Shard Temple
She stood inside a hollow shrine of mirrors.
Not made of glass.
But of reflections.
Each one showed her in different timelines:
One cradled a wolf born of starlight
One bled ink into parchment as kingdoms fell
One sat in chains, her mouth sewn shut, guarded by Librarian Priests
She stared at them.
They stared back.
"I'm not remembering…I'm syncing."
"The Codex didn't write me.I'm one of the ones who helped write it."
📜 [Codex Fragment Detected – Glyph: AETHRA]
Status: Degraded Author CoreRank: UnknownAlignment: UnresolvedPermissions: Author-Override (Locked)Memory Sync Progress: 42%
"My name…" she touched the glyph."Was Aethra."
As the mirrors flickered, one of them whispered:
"You split your soul across timelines…So no one could erase you completely."
Flashback Fragment – The Pact of the Three Authors
She remembered a room with two others.Silhouettes. Voices without form.
One wielded a quill made of shadow.One wore a crown of bone and fire.
They stood before a living Codex, its pages still wet with universal law.
"We must build the Codex to save this world," said one.
"But if it turns on us, we need a way back in," said the second.
"Then we fragment," Aethra whispered. "We hide our true selves in the Hosts."
And so they did.
The Three Original Authors—
—Became myths.
Present: Awakening
The Moonlink Girl—Aethra—held her head.
Visions ripped through her.
She saw Cain.
She saw Lethe.
She saw her old signature in the sky, branded above the mountains.
"Someone is rewriting skills…But they don't know the old rules yet."
And she did.
She could feel the Author Key begin to stir in her soul.
[Author Override: 6% Synced]
New Skill Accessed: Timeline Weft
Allows Aethra to see potential Codex edits before they lock
Can reverse up to 10 seconds of rewritten history
Costs: Fragment Stability (degrades identity per use)
"If Cain keeps rewriting without knowing what's buried underneath…"
Her eyes narrowed.
"He might not just tear the Codex."
"He might unleash the Forgotten Draft."
Cut to: Shadow Beyond the Codex
A page lies sealed in pitch-black wax.Far beyond Cain.Beyond Lethe.Even beyond Aethra's full reach… for now.
The heading reads:
Draft Zero – The Law That Ate the World