Mag-log inChapter One Hundred and Seventy-Nine****The sky bled silver.The Eclipse is finally here.The moment the moon swallowed the sun, and the entire world .The ground of the academy became heavy. The Great Bell that was already cracked scattered into dust. Students screamed, professors vanished into hidden wards, and the air itself turned thick with ash and static.Morwen walked through the chaos like a queen returning to her throne.Behind her, the Pit of Echoes vomited forth everything she’d summoned: Ash-Wraiths howling in dead tongues, Bone Speakers chanting from rib cages, the Hollow Flame writhing like a serpent made of smoke and spite. The Heartstone pulsed in her chest, its hunger finally satisfied now, it burned with purpose.She was going to the Door.And she wasn’t asking anymore.The pendant burned against my chest before I even opened my eyes.I gasped, sitting up in the obsidian chamber as Jason and Kael jolted awake beside me.“She’s going there,” I said, voice raw. “To t
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Eight****In her chamber, Morwen stood before the scrying mirror, watching me.She saw me sitting still and calm.And she smiled.“Good,” she whispered. “Now you understand. To rule, you must stop caring.”She turned to the Heartstone, now pulsing in a cage of ribs on her altar.“Soon,” she murmured. “Soon, the Door will have no choice but to open for me… because I’ll bring it a key made of screams.”Outside, the wind howled.One day left.....Just one more sunrise before the sky bleeds silver and the veil shatters.And Morwen was really doing too much, she was busy unleashing.By morning, she’d dragged eight more students into the Pit of Echoes. Not quietly this time.She paraded them through the courtyard like offerings, their mouths sewn shut with black thread, eyes wide with silent terror. Blood dripped from their fingertips, painting the stone in jagged lines of prophecy only she could read.She wasn’t just gathering power anymore.She was becoming
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Seven****At midnight I couldn't sleep, I stood at my window again, but this time, the air felt totally wrong, everything stood still as if time itself had paused.And then the screaming started.Not one voice. Dozens of voices,echoing from the west dorms to the Ash House. I ran out of my dorm even before Jason even knocked.By the time we reached the courtyard, the chaos was already spreading like fire through dry grass.“Five students are missing,” a sobbing first-year stammered to a circle of panicked students. “They were just here, and suddenly they were gone."Kael’s face went blue. “Not gone. Taken.”Jason grabbed my arm, his voice low. “Morwen is escalating.”I nodded my head in agreement.I looked towards the far end of the courtyard, Morwen was dressed in black mist and flanked by three Ash-Wraith, and she was smiling.Her eyes were void-black, dotted with dying stars,she looked at me across the chaos and gave me a clear message."I can tak
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Six****The next day,we stood in the training yard, sweat already dripping from our brows before the sun had fully risen. Jason moved like liquid shadow, Kael’s strikes precise as flame-tongue lashes, and I didn’t just move. I flowed. Storm and fire no longer fought for space inside me. They danced.And then Lira came sprinting across the yard like the ground was burning under her.“Aria!” she called, stopping in front of me with a heavy breath. Her eyes were wide,and frantic. “Where have you been? headmistress and I searched everywhere for you, she went to your dorm, the library, and even questioned your professors! She thought you vanished...you and Jason and Kael are like ghosts!”I wiped my brow with the back of my hand and smiled. Not cruelly and not kindly either, Just… calmly.“I’ve been here, Lira,” I said. “Same as always., we didn't vanish anywhere.”She blinked. “But your dorm was empty throughout the day.”“Was it?” I tilted my head. “Mayb
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Five****We sat quietly in the obsidian chamber without talking to each other, we let the silence stretch so we could enjoy the calmness.Hours melted like wax. Outside was busy and filled with noises and chaos but here, time bent around us like smoke. Jason, Kael, and I sat in a triangle, palms hovering just above the floor, eyes closed, hearts synced to the same silent rhythm. Every breath pulled power from the air,not just ours, but the world’s. The storm in my blood became calm. Jason’s shadow curled around my ankles like a loyal hound, no longer separate, but part of me. And Kael’s flame didn’t burn,it guarded. A living seal around our trinity was humming with ancient loyalty. When I opened my eyes, the obsidian mirrors showed our essences. Mine: a vortex of blue fire and silver lightning, coiled like a sleeping dragon. Jason’s: a depth of night, not empty, but alive,eyes blinking in the dark, watching, waiting. Kael’s: a furnace of crimson r
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Four****In the morning I found Jason and Kael at the edge of the training yard before the sun had fully set,dew clung to their cloaks. I didn’t need to say much. One look, and they knew.“She tried to summon the Hollow King last night,” I said quietly, leaning against the stone archway. “And I ruined it.”Jason’s jaw tightened. “You went alone?”“I wasn’t alone,” I said, glancing toward the empty air beside me where Raven had stood. “And besides… I had the bond. It helped too.”Kael crossed his arms. “Morwen won’t take that lightly.”“No,” I agreed. “She’ll come harder and smarter. But not today.”We drilled in silence after that blades flashing, shadows weaving, storm crackling under my skin like a caged beast. I held back. Every time Jason’s blade met mine, blue fire sparked between us, humming in a frequency only we could feel. Kael watched, eyes narrowed, sensing something shifting in the air.After drills, we didn't eat in the dining hall, we at
Chapter Eighty-Two****The next day,Kael and Jason saw Kieran sit all by himself in one of the old empty halls. They walked towards him.Kael’s fists were clenched so tight that anyone could see the veins standing out like roots under his skin. Jason’s shoulders were locked, his eyes were and he w
Chapter Eighty-One****The next morning after training, I sat in one of the deserted classrooms.My mind was elsewhere.On him.Kieran.No, I mean Harry.The name burned behind my teeth like a curse I refused to speak aloud. I could still feel the weight of his presence from last night,the way the
Chapter Eighty****I was sitting alone in the library.My fingers traced the edge of my book, but I wasn’t seeing the words. I was feeling the silence beneath the stone, the faint tremor that had sparked through the academy hours ago when Harry began his return.And now, all I could do was sit.Bec
Chapter Seventy-Nine****She tried for hours.I felt it in the stone under my feet,a relentless spark of failed incantations, each one weaker than the last. Morwen, on her knees before the sealed door, chanting in dead tongues, pressing her hands to the obsidian until her skin cracked and bled.Bu







