Each Pazudusa could take many forms: a flickering hologram of a dragon’s wing, the echo of a lover’s laugh, the static crackle of an old vinyl record. They were the librarians, the custodians, and the storytellers all at once.

Prologue

“Why are we called ‘Bezvests’?” Lira asked, her voice trembling with awe.

In the far‑flung reaches of the Aetheric Sea, where the night sky folds over itself like a never‑ending tapestry of violet and amber, there lies a floating citadel known only as , the home of the Pazudusas . Travelers speak of it in hushed tones: a place that exists both online and in the folds of memory, a sanctuary where stories are free, unchained, and ever‑changing. 1. The Arrival Lira had never believed in myths. She was a data‑archivist for the Galactic Consortium, tasked with pruning obsolete servers and sealing off the “unlicensed” streams that floated through the interstellar web. One night, while combing through a forgotten packet of ancient code, she stumbled upon a single, shimmering URL:

In the central dome stood the , a crystal pool that reflected not a face, but the stories that lived within a soul. Lira gazed into it and saw herself as a child on a rain‑soaked street, a star‑pilot navigating the nebulae, an old woman tending a garden of luminous flowers. Each memory was a story, each story a thread in the infinite tapestry of the Bezvests.