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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Echoes Of The Mark
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The wind in the Vale changed.It didn’t howl or scream. It listened.For days, the earth beneath the sanctum pulsed like a second heartbeat. The air smelled of scorched myrrh and rain-wet ash. Runes burned dimly beneath Zara’s skin, echoing her daughter’s every breath. Even Elira’s giggles—childlike, weightless—carried a strange undertone, as though something older laughed with her.The Hollow Root was no longer sleeping. It was watching.Zara stood at the center of the flame-circle Ruby had etched in the ritual chamber. Elira slept in a cradle behind her, swaddled in moon-thread silk, a blade of bone tucked beneath the folds for protection that was more symbolic than useful. Kael stood guard at the archway, eyes wary, sword unsheathed, the golden hilt pulsing faintly.“You’re sure about this?” he asked, voice low.Zara didn’t answer. Not with words. Her fingers opened. Her blood fell like ink into the ash.The circle ignited.Not in flame—in hollow.A strange heat rose from the marki
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The mirror shattered with a whisper.Not a crash. Not a scream. Just a soft, breathless exhale—as though time itself sighed through the glass.Zara stood frozen, bare feet rooted to the cracked marble. She hadn't meant to touch it. The mirror had sat untouched for decades in the southern sanctum, framed by the bones of old wolf-queens and the sigils of vanished bloodlines. No reflection had lived inside it since her mother's death. But now, as the final shard fell to the floor, the silver within rippled.And something stepped out.Not someone.Someones.Zara gasped.They moved in a spiral. Not physical bodies, but echoes—like oil on water, like dreams half-remembered. Each one bore her face. Or versions of it. A warrior queen cloaked in antlers. A peacekeeper crowned in feathers. A girl no older than Elira, cradling a sword taller than herself. And then, one more—a woman cloaked in starlight, her eyes twin embers."These are your echoes," came a voice. Not hers. Not quite.Zara turned
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Elira began to speak in her sleep.Not in babble or whimpers like other infants, but in full phrases—sometimes single words, sometimes long, drawn-out verses in a tongue none of them recognized. The syllables echoed through the sanctum at night like distant thunder rolling over bones. Kael first heard it while sharpening his blade. Ruby, during a patrol beneath the eastern towers. But it was Zara who heard the clearest—because the voice came from her daughter, and the language curled like a memory she hadn’t lived."Dreamwalking," Ruby whispered, kneeling beside the child’s cradle one moonless night. "That’s what the old seers called it. When a child walks through minds instead of hallways."Elira lay still, eyes closed, tiny fingers curled around the silk thread of her blanket. Her mouth moved."Etari-vos lunas kael. Tenebrum renox."Zara stiffened. The second phrase—she knew it. Or part of it.She stepped forward slowly. "That last word... 'renox'. That’s from the Balance texts. It
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The cradle pulsed.Not with light. Not with movement. But with something older—like memory curling inside a breath. The sanctum where Elira had been born no longer sat still. It breathed. Stones shifted without touch. Shadows blinked without source. Beneath the surface of the earth, something vast had awakened—and it was listening.Zara leaned heavily against the arched window, her healing robe damp with sweat. Days had passed since the Hollow Eye fell. Since fire and blood gave birth to a child who did not cry, but watched. Now the girl slept in a woven nest of starlight thread, guarded by runes etched in ruby and silver. Yet Zara could feel it—the shifting hum beneath her bones. Something had broken. Or been born.She clutched her abdomen, not from pain, but because something echoed there. Not contraction. Not ache. A pull—as if the cradle was singing to her womb, to the same spark that once carried the girl now cradled in flame.“She dreams with her eyes open,” Ruby whispered behin
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER FORTY: Born Under Fire
The storm had no name.It tore across the Vale with a fury that felt personal—wind screaming like ancient spirits loosed from their graves, rain falling in silver needles that carved through sky and stone. The mountaintop sanctuary shook under the weight of clashing magic. Lightning danced violet across the heavens, illuminating the broken runes around Zara as she labored beneath the blood-soaked moon."She’s early," Ruby said, soaked and pale, her voice ragged. "Too early."Zara was on her knees, breath shallow, one hand clenched around Kael's bloodied palm, the other wrapped protectively over her belly. Her skin pulsed with flame-light, veins glowing with the combined fury of Balance and Blood. The protection circle had cracked. The Hollow Eye had breached the gates. The prophecy rune had shattered in the rites. And now, the child—her child—was coming."They’re closing in," Kael growled, glancing toward the shadowed edge of the sanctuary where figures robed in voidlight flickered in
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The moon over the Vale bled silver.Not shimmered. Not glowed. Bled.Zara stood in the center of the highstone terrace, cloaked in ceremonial silk, her hand pressed to the runes carved into the ritual dais. Around her, the full moon rite burned to life—candles flickered in unnatural rhythms, salt circles hissed as if they resisted what was coming, and the air itself seemed too thick to breathe.Kael and Ruby stood just beyond the circle, warding glyphs drawn beneath their boots, weapons ready, shoulders tight.The child within her shifted. Not a simple kick. A surge. Power rippled through Zara’s spine, unfurling through her veins like molten metal.She hissed and staggered."She’s responding to the moon," Ruby murmured. "But it’s too soon. The alignment wasn’t supposed to peak until next week."Zara's skin lit with lunar sigils, glowing from beneath as if her bones remembered an older magic. Her breath grew shallow. The circle beneath her feet trembled. The protective glyphs began to
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