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CHAPTER 212: THORNS OF COMPLIANCE

Author: Lizzy Fash
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-16 19:17:24

AKAEL

The second we crossed the threshold of the dark forest, I felt it. A thrum. A summons. Not in words, but in the binding seal that encircles my soul like a chain soaked in fire.

Father was calling us.

"He knows," I whispered.

Akasha tensed at my side. "Of course, he does."

We did not speak again as we walked. Our boots crunched through dry sticks, leaves whispering in fear overhead. The silence between us was heavy, not with guilt, but with inevitability. There has never been a time when Father wasn't aware of what we were up to. There has never been a time when his punishments were lenient.

The garden gates loomed as a cage of bone and sorrow. When I went to touch the obsidian iron, they groaned open of their own accord. The garden inside was too perfect. Never-wilting flowers, blood-red roses with crystal thorns, vines that shone silver in the moonlight. The one place Father smiled. A sanctuary of control.

He was already there.

Audacus stood between, in midnight. Wings
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