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THE HATCHING
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2025-12-30 07:56:00CHAPTER 37
The first crack sounded like ice breaking on a river.A sharp, impossible snap through bone walls that were never supposed to bend.Every chain in the cage jerked in the same direction—toward the ceiling—as if something above us had grabbed the entire system and yanked. The floor trembled under my boots. Dust fell in pale sheets from the darkness overhead.My copy stumbled, catching herself against a hanging chain. Her eyes were bright with rage and something else—fear.“You shouldn’t have said it,” she hissed.My wrists still burned where moon-silver had bitten, but the chains around them loosened another fraction, confused, vibrating as if the cage didn’t know who it belonged to anymore.My mother swayed on unsteady legs, blood streaking her sleeves, her mouth still sealed by the cage’s earlier command. She pressed her hands to her chest again like prayer, eyes locked on mine, begging me to remember what sh
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CHAPTER 37 The first crack sounded like ice breaking on a river.A sharp, impossible snap through bone walls that were never supposed to bend.Every chain in the cage jerked in the same direction—toward the ceiling—as if something above us had grabbed the entire system and yanked. The floor trembled under my boots. Dust fell in pale sheets from the darkness overhead.My copy stumbled, catching herself against a hanging chain. Her eyes were bright with rage and something else—fear.“You shouldn’t have said it,” she hissed.My wrists still burned where moon-silver had bitten, but the chains around them loosened another fraction, confused, vibrating as if the cage didn’t know who it belonged to anymore.My mother swayed on unsteady legs, blood streaking her sleeves, her mouth still sealed by the cage’s earlier command. She pressed her hands to her chest again like prayer, eyes locked on mine, begging me to remember what sh
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