Vaelion of Ocris - Unwritten Path - The Crack in the Mask: …where silence has teeth -

Some books begin as stories.
These did not. They began as questions.

*The Unwritten Path* asked: **How is truth written?**
*The Crack in the Mask* answered: **How is truth silenced?**

Between those two questions lies the bridge I call *The Witness Cycle* —
a space where language and silence meet, and neither fully wins.
It is less a saga than a conversation: between what we dare to say and what still waits to be heard.

Both books grew from the same root — a fascination with the unseen architecture of thought.
How does memory survive when words fail?
What remains of us when silence learns our name?

The stories were not written to explain, but to listen.
Each page is a fragment of a dialogue that never truly ends —
a witness to the moments when illusion falters and something real begins to breathe beneath the mask.

If you have ever felt that quiet is not emptiness but attention —
if you’ve ever listened to a silence that seemed to remember —
you are already part of this cycle.

**Welcome, fellow traveler.**
*The witness is never alone.*