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Chapter 56: The Forsaken Gate
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CROWNED BY BLOOD Epilogue: The Keeper of Stories
(Two Hundred Years Later)The child asked the question all children eventually asked."Was Luna real?"The Keeper of Stories, an old woman whose silver hair caught the light from Kai's Tree just so smiled and set down her pen. The library around them hummed with the quiet energy of thousands of volumes, each one containing fragments of truth passed down through generations. But none were as worn as the book she had been transcribing, its pages filled with Luna's own hand."Real as the tree that shelters us," the Keeper said, gesturing to the window where ancient branches spread wide, their bark still glowing faintly with celestial light. "Real as the stones you walk on. Real as the air you breathe.""All of that is true," the Keeper replied, and at the child's confused expression, she laughed softly. "Come. Let me show you something."She led the girl through corridors lined with portraits, some painted, a few captured in the newer art of light-drawing that the scholars had recently p
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 126: Love Beyond the Veil
I sat beneath Kai's Tree, my back resting against bark that had grown smooth and familiar over years of coming here to think and remember and simply be. My fingers traced the glowing patterns that pulsed beneath the surface, following veins of light that mapped his essence like rivers on an illuminated manuscript. The tree hummed with his presence, not metaphorically but literally, I could feel the vibration in my bones, could sense his consciousness distributed through wood and leaf and root.My children rested beside me very grown now, their faces carrying the lines that come from years lived fully rather than merely endured. Their eyes held echoes of all we had survived together: the curse and the wars, the transformations and reconciliations, the long slow work of healing that never truly ended but which had brought us here, to this moment of profound peace.Seraphina sat to my right, Alexander was to my left, solid as stone but gentler than he had once been, having learned that t
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 125: The Circle of Stones
The air was still that evening in a way that felt intentional rather than accidental: no wind disturbing the leaves, no birdsong breaking the silence, just the rhythmic sound of chisels against stone that rang like heartbeats across the garden. The students of the Sanctuary knelt in concentric circles around the monument.The monument had grown over the years since its founding, expanding organically as more names needed recording. Rows upon rows of letters etched into pale marble that seemed to glow faintly in certain lights, circling the sacred tree that had grown from Kai's seed and which still pulsed with his lingering presence. The tree had become massive now, its branches spreading wide enough to shelter dozens beneath its canopy.I stood at the edge of the gathering. I watched as each child stepped forward in turn when their name was called, approaching the stone with expressions that ranged from solemn to fearful to quietly determined.I stepped forward into the circle where t
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 124: The Story They Will Tell
They sang about me now, and the songs had taken on lives of their own. Not in Hollowshade alone, where memory was still fresh and people could point to actual places where specific events had occurred. But across the realms in distant kingdoms and hidden valleys, in places I had never visited and among peoples who knew me only through reputation.Some called me the Flame Queen, the one who burned kingdoms for love and watched the ashes scatter without remorse. Their songs painted me as a force of nature, passionate and destructive as wildfire, consuming everything in my path while claiming it was for protection. They weren't entirely wrong, but they missed the quiet desperation, the slow corruption, the thousand small choices that accumulated into catastrophe.Others whispered about the Moon Curse, the creature who devoured her own soul and nearly took the world with her. These stories emphasized transformation over intention, focused on the wolf rather than the woman, made me into a
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 123: Ashes to Grace
The air smelled of rain and forgiveness, that particular scent that comes after a storm has passed and the earth is washing itself clean. I walked barefoot through the glade where so much had happened, my feet finding the same paths I had run as wolf, where claws had torn earth and blood had stained stones. Each step sank into ground that was soft and welcoming, earth that once rejected me as contaminated but which now welcomed me home like a mother embracing a wayward child.This was where I screamed as my body remade itself, bones breaking and reforming, humanity bleeding away as the wolf emerged. Where I became the monster my children would have to fight, the nightmare that would haunt them for years.The memory burned, immediate and visceral despite the years that had passed. But it no longer owned me the way it once had, no longer defined every thought and feeling, no longer dictated who I was allowed to become.I lay down on my side, lowering myself slowly until my cheek pressed
CROWNED BY BLOOD Chapter 122: The Mother's Flame
Lanterns swayed from the trees like luminous fruit, woven with moonflowers and silver threads that caught starlight and transformed it into something softer, more intimate.It was the first Festival of the Mothers since peace had truly returned, since the last threats had been defeated and the slow work of healing had progressed far enough that people felt safe celebrating rather than merely surviving. I stood at the center of the courtyard, barefoot upon the stone circle.They had asked me to light the first flame, to stand as representative of all mothers who had struggled and failed and somehow continued anyway. The invitation had come from the council of village elders, presented with careful formality, giving me every opportunity to decline if the honor felt too heavy or the symbolism too fraught.It felt strange after everything I had done, after all the ways I had failed at the very role I was now being asked to represent to be honored in this way. The whispers still followed m
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