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Chapter 113: The Gathering of Realms
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CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 115: The Sanctuary School
Before me stood the Sanctuary School, the vision my children had spoken of with increasing passion since the war's end, their eyes bright with possibility as they described what education could be when freed from the constraints of suspicion and ancient hatreds. They had worked for months on the design, consulting with architects from every realm, ensuring that no single culture dominated the aesthetic, that every person who sent students would see something of themselves reflected in the structure.Its halls rang with laughter, the joyful noise of young people discovering friendship across boundaries that had once seemed absolute, finding common ground in shared curiosity and the universal awkwardness of adolescence. Through the open windows, I could hear conversations in languages I didn't recognize, punctuated by giggles and the occasional mock-serious debate about whose magical tradition was superior in terms of style if not necessarily function.All gathered together, at least wi
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 114: Kai's Tree
The trees breathed again in that imperceptible way living things do, their leaves rustling with contentment. The air smelled of moss and rain, of growing things and earth rich with life. Seraphina and Alexander walked ahead of me on the narrow path, their steps light upon soil that had once been scarred and barren but now teemed with life. Kai Jr. stayed at my side, his presence was steady and grounding as always. His gaze was distant but tender, his spirit-sight allowed him perspectives denied to purely mortal vision, and I had learned to trust the things he sensed even when I could not perceive them myself."There's something you need to see," he murmured.My feet knew where to step even when my eyes couldn't see the path clearly. My body recognized this place on a level deeper than conscious thought, responding to landmarks that existed more in spirit than in physical space.When the clearing finally opened before us suddenly, as though a veil had lifted I stopped breathing altog
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 113: The Gathering of Realms
I stood before the ancient circle of stones that had witnessed so much history, both glorious and terrible. This was the place where I had shattered the boundaries between realms and invited darkness to pour through the cracks. The stones still bore scorch marks from that night, a permanent reminder of the woman I had been.The circle had been carefully prepared over weeks of labor. The ground was cleared and blessed by representatives from each realm, the stones washed clean and anointed with oils that carried prayers for reconciliation. Banners hung from posts driven into the earth, each one bearing the symbols of the different peoples who would gather here today not as enemies, but as potential allies in building a future that honored the past without being bound by it."Are you ready?" Seraphina asked from beside me, her voice steady but with a tremor under its strength that only a mother could detect. She wore no crown, we had all agreed that this gathering would be one of equals
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 112: The Memory Vault
Kai Jr. led me through the silent passages with the confidence of someone who had studied these tunnels extensively, who knew their secrets even when I, their former queen, did not. We passed rows of sealed doors, each one marked with ancient runes that glowed faintly in the torchlight. Some doors were bound with chains that had rusted into the stone itself. Others were merely closed, but the magic that held them shut was palpable, pressing against my skin like invisible hands warning us away.The temperature dropped as we descended, Kai Jr. glanced back at me over his shoulder, and in the torchlight his face was half-shadow, half-flame. His expression was unreadable neither angry nor gentle. Just determined, with the quiet certainty of someone who had wrestled with a difficult decision and finally committed to a course of action. "It's time you saw what was kept from you, Mother. Time you understood the full truth of what was done."We stopped before a massive door at the end of the
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 111: The Return of the Stars
For years, the sky above Hollowshade had been empty. No moonlight bright enough to guide the lost home through shadowed paths. The curse had swallowed the heavens whole, devouring light and wonder and leaving only darkness.Children born during those years grew up never knowing the comfort of stars. The old astronomers and navigators had become obsolete, their carefully crafted star charts useless, their knowledge withering like plants deprived of sun. Even though the natural world had suffered, birds that once migrated by starlight became lost.The empty sky had become so familiar that I had almost stopped looking up. But tonight… the stars came back.It started with a flicker so faint I thought I had imagined it. A single shimmer piercing through the black like a needle through heavy cloth. I stopped mid-step on the balcony where I often came to watch the empty night, my breath catching in my throat as I stared at that impossible point of light.Then another appeared. Then another.
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 110: Celestina's Flame
The night air was heavy with the scent of rain-soaked stone and earth drinking deep after a long drought. I carried the torch myself and walked barefoot on the cold stones. The courtyard was empty at this hour, most of Hollowshade's residents either asleep or keeping a respectful distance from what they knew I needed to do alone. The moon hung heavy and full overhead, its light painting everything in shades of silver and shadow. Somewhere in the distance, a night bird called, its voice lonely and beautiful in the darkness.It had been years since Celeste fell by my hand, since the curse twisted me into something that struck down the woman who raised me to power. My grandmother. My teacher. The woman who taught me to read the old texts and speak the ancient languages. My fiercest critic, the only one who ever truly believed I could rise higher than my bloodline's dark history suggested.She had seen the potential for greatness in me before the curse, and she had seen the monster emer
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