The Spiral That Chose Itself is the fifth and final story in the Tales of Niky series-a meditative fable about identity, belonging, and the freedom to become who you were never told to be. In the center of the world stands the Spiral Glade, where paths from every realm converge. It is said that those who reach the glade must choose a direction-upward, outward, forward, back. But one traveler, arriving with no name and no map, chooses something else: to stay still and listen. This quiet figure has followed riddles carved in bark, echoes from other lives, and signs scattered like seeds. With every book, a symbol appeared. With every step, something grew inside. Now, in the Spiral Glade, the final choice must be made-not of where to go, but of who to become. As nature bends around their stillness-roots spiraling, stones shifting, petals unfurling-the traveler begins to understand: the path was never about direction. It was about becoming the spiral itself. This is a story about: