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The Forgotten Melody
Author: Haiistory
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The light did come, but not in the way they expected.

In the moment when Jihan and Ara's dance created a new resonance, something unexpected happened. The air around them began to vibrate with a strange frequency - not the destructive vibrations that the Dancers had brought, but also not the pure harmony that Jihan and her friends had created.

“You do not understand what you have started,” the Dancing King whispered, and for the first time, there was something different in his voice - no longer anger or threat, but... fear?

Jihan felt it first - a sensation like a thousand memories rising simultaneously, flooding her consciousness with fragments from a past she didn't recognize. In her blurred vision, she saw a glimpse of something ancient - the first dances, when humans were just learning to move their bodies in rhythm.

“What's going on?” Ming Hua asked, her voice trembling as the same wave slammed into her consciousness.

“The Great Remembering,” Ara replied, his eyes wide with recog
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