DISPATCH DIALOGUES

Transmission from Within the Cycle

DISPATCH 06 – Sylthar

Sylthar has seen the first Cycle and all that followed. He does not participate, yet the Cycles turn because he is present. Now, for the first time, he speaks.

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The Watcher Who Does Not Look Away

Q1: What is it you Watch?

The Pattern. Not as it appears, but as it insists.

I Watch what repeats without permission. What tries to forget itself.
What slips between Threads hoping not to be seen.

Most believe Watching means looking. It does not.
It means remembering what others unmake.

Q2: Do you remember every Cycle?

I remember the consequences.

Not the names. Not the costumes.
Those change.

What does not change is the weight a decision leaves behind.
Across Cycles, it feels the same. The grief of an unspoken truth. The echo of a Thread pulled too soon. The relief when no one notices and the dread when someone does.

I do not count the Cycles. I measure the pressure.

Q3: What is your relationship with Glimlock and Telryn?

We emerged together, but not as allies.

Glimlock runs toward collapse to understand it.
Telryn slows time to see its shape.
I remain in the center and listen.

We speak rarely.
When we do, the Cycles shift.

Q4: Why have you made yourself visible now?

Because the Pattern blinked.

Because a child shaped a Thread from absence.
Because Glimlock stopped speaking when he saw it.
Because Telryn did not turn away.

Because Watching has limits.

And I have reached mine.