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Chapter 91: The Heart of the Forge
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2026-08-09 18:50:45
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"Come home, Cael."The child's voice floated up from the abyss, light and high, carrying an eerie, bell-like clarity that cut straight through the low groan of the subterranean stone. Cael didn't move. Beside him at the jagged lip of the abyss, Lyra stared down into the shadows of the lower Forge, her boots slipping on the slick, soot-covered rock. Lucien stood just a few paces back near the far pillar, his hand white-knuckled on his daggers, his eyes darting between the pit and the shadows as the rest of their group held the line. The black flames crawling along the basalt walls threw off zero heat; they served only to turn the child’s oversized silver eyes into twin points of reflected glint.Behind them, the First King remained on his knees, his regal poise utterly shattered. His heavy broadsword lay four feet away, forgotten in the dirt."No," the old ruler whispered, the sound scraping raw out of his throat.The child tilted his head, long strands of filthy black hair falling
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"Bring me the Crown."The voice was unmistakably Cael’s—thin, slightly raspy, carrying the familiar pitch of a half-starved youth from the lower tunnels.The smile, however, was wrong. It stretched too wide across his slate-gray face, pulling the skin flat and lifeless across his jaw without a single flicker of the hesitant warmth Lyra had come to recognize over the past few weeks.She froze, her boots rooted to the ash-streaked flagstones.His eyes had turned entirely black. No pupils, no irises, no white—just deep, lightless wells that swallowed the flicker of the furnace fires. Yet somewhere behind that terrifying void, Cael was still there. She could see it in the frantic pulse fluttering against his collarbone, in the way his knuckles turned white as he clawed at the stone floor, and in the fine, continuous tremor running through his shoulders.Something else had simply shoved him aside and taken the wheel.Don't answer him, the Hollow Queen whispered, her voice dry and str
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