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BLOODSCENT THROUGH STONE

Author: Papi
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-12-30 06:56:00

CHAPTER 17

The chamber smelled like smoke and wet rock—until it didn’t.

Until the air shifted and my lungs filled with something familiar, something that didn’t belong in covenant tunnels at all.

My mother.

Not her perfume. Not her soap. Her blood.

It slid into the room like a hand around my throat, sweet and metallic and wrong. The kind of scent that didn’t mean “nearby.” It meant “opened.”

The cageborn turned its coal-bright eyes toward the same direction I did. It twitched, eager, like a dog hearing its name.

Mara’s smile deepened. “There it is,” she murmured. “The Marrow thread.”

Kieran hunched on the stone floor, shaking, the black tendrils still crawling faintly over his chest like bruises trying to become roots. His gaze snapped to me, raw and panicked.

“Aria,” he rasped. “I can feel… something pulling.”

My stomach tightened. I could feel it too—two separate tugs, two separate hooks in
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