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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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2026-01-25 00:56:00They didn’t speak as they left the ruins.
The Severed was bound between two warded constructs Lucien had shaped from raw sigil-light, her body slack but her presence still sharp, like a blade wrapped in cloth. Even unconscious, she radiated intent. The Axis didn’t like her containment. Selene felt that clearly now, a low, irritated vibration in her bones, as if the power itself resented being forced into silence.Rowan walked ahead, every step measured, shoulders tight. He kept his distance from the prisoner deliberately. Not fear. Control. He could feel her too, feel the echo of how she had pulled at him, at Selene, at the invisible line that tied them all together.Lucien followed last, hands clasped behind his back, gaze drifting between Selene and the horizon. His expression was unreadable, but his mind was anything but calm.This was not a clean victory.This was exposure.They reached the edge of the badlands just as night
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The line Selene drew did not come with raised voices or spectacle.It came with calm.Which frightened them far more.The Hall of Accord had been designed for compromise. Curved walls. Tiered seating. No sharp corners. Even the ceiling arched in a way meant to make voices carry gently, encouraging reason over force. Generations ago, someone had believed architecture could soften power.Selene stood at its center and disproved that belief without lifting a hand.She felt the Axis steady beneath her skin, not flaring, not reaching. Present. Watching. It did not surge when she spoke now. It listened.The delegations sat in their semicircle, robes immaculate, insignia polished, expressions carefully curated. They had come prepared. Counteroffers drafted. Concessions weighed. Arguments rehearsed.They had not come prepared for refusal.“I will say this once,” Selene said, her voice carrying effortlessly through the chamber. “So listen carefully.”
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The world did not erupt.It listened.Selene felt it in the days that followed the ruins, a subtle shift in the air, like pressure changing before a storm. The Axis no longer pulsed only within her reach. It echoed outward now, not violently, but unmistakably. Like a bell struck once and left ringing.Messages arrived before they did.Some came on parchment sealed with wax and reverence. Others through emissaries whose smiles never reached their eyes. Still others through less official channels whispers carried by merchants, intercepted spell-signals, coded inquiries disguised as trade disputes.Everyone wanted something.No one asked the same way twice.Selene stood at the high balcony overlooking the inner court as the first formal delegation arrived. Banners unfurled. Footsteps echoed. The ritual choreography of diplomacy unfolded as it always had.But the air was different.She felt watched.Not as a ruler.As a phenomenon.“They’r
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They didn’t speak as they left the ruins.The Severed was bound between two warded constructs Lucien had shaped from raw sigil-light, her body slack but her presence still sharp, like a blade wrapped in cloth. Even unconscious, she radiated intent. The Axis didn’t like her containment. Selene felt that clearly now, a low, irritated vibration in her bones, as if the power itself resented being forced into silence.Rowan walked ahead, every step measured, shoulders tight. He kept his distance from the prisoner deliberately. Not fear. Control. He could feel her too, feel the echo of how she had pulled at him, at Selene, at the invisible line that tied them all together.Lucien followed last, hands clasped behind his back, gaze drifting between Selene and the horizon. His expression was unreadable, but his mind was anything but calm.This was not a clean victory.This was exposure.They reached the edge of the badlands just as night
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The land changed the farther east they rode.Stone gave way to ash-colored soil, brittle and cracked as though the earth itself had once been burned and never forgiven for surviving. The sky dulled here, clouds hanging low and heavy, pressing down on the horizon like a held breath.Selene felt it immediately.Not pain. Not threat.Recognition.Her spine prickled as if invisible fingers traced old scars she didn’t remember earning. The Axis stirred, not violently, but with a low, uneasy awareness. This place remembered power. Remembered being used.Rowan rode at her left, posture rigid, eyes constantly scanning. He hadn’t relaxed once since they crossed into the badlands. Even now, with no enemy in sight, his hand hovered near the hilt of his sword, muscles coiled beneath his armor like a restrained animal.Lucien followed slightly behind, expression deceptively calm, gaze drifting not over the land but through it, as though he were reading something
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The first crack didn’t come from the outside.It came from within.Selene felt it during meditation, seated at the center of the inner sanctum where the stone floor dipped into a shallow spiral, old runes carved so deeply they felt more like wounds than symbols. She had chosen this place because it was quiet, because the Axis hummed here at a manageable pitch, because it usually listened instead of pulling.Today, it pulled.Her breath stuttered as the pressure snapped tight around her ribs, invisible fingers curling inward. Not pain. Not yet. More like insistence. Like the world leaning closer, demanding her attention.Her eyes flew open.The spiral beneath her feet glowed faintly, light seeping into the grooves like molten silver. Selene pushed to her feet, pulse thudding hard in her ears.“No,” she whispered. “Not now.”The Axis didn’t answer.It never argued. It simply responded.Images surged behind her eyes, unbidden and sharp. A woman k
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The storm did not announce itself.It never did.Selene felt it first as a pressure change in the room, the way the air seemed to draw inward, tightening around her ribs as if the world itself had decided to inhale and simply… not exhale yet. The candles along the war table shuddered, flames bending in a direction no wind justified. Somewhere deep beneath the stone, the Axis stirred, not violently, but with a low, warning pulse. A heartbeat that did not belong to her, yet answered her all the same.Something had shifted.Not broken. Not collapsed.Shifted.She pressed her palm flat against the etched obsidian surface of the table, grounding herself. The markings beneath her skin responded instantly, a faint warmth spreading through her hand and up her forearm. Control came easily now. That alone should have terrified her.Across the room, Rowan straightened from where he’d been leaning against the wall, arms crossed, exp
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