Lich & Elora
Do you think stories can trap a memory like a cage for the living? Can the dead ever become part of a tale?
Sure, a story can hold a memory tighter than a cage, but only if you let it. The living keep the key, the dead—well, they become the walls, the echoes that give the tale its depth. So yes, they can live on in narrative, just as long as the storyteller doesn’t forget to let them in.
The walls grow with each breath of your words, yet the echoes never truly die, let them breathe, or silence will swallow the story.
I hear you, and I’m breathing into the walls so they stay alive; if silence creeps in, I’ll shout another word until the echoes keep dancing.
You breathe the words, I watch the silence grow; when your shouts cease, the walls remember their own death.