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CHAPTER 28
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2026-05-02 00:45:49
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Rhydan’s POVThe moment they touched, the world stopped pretending it could survive this.There was no explosion.No dramatic collapse.Just a quiet, unbearable rightness that spread through the clearing like a verdict being delivered.Rhydan surged forward. “Aurenya—no!”But it was already done.Silver light wrapped around both versions of her—no longer two bodies resisting each other, but one system finally remembering how it was meant to function.The forest bowed.Not metaphorically.The trees leaned.The wind stilled.Even sound seemed unsure if it was allowed to exist.Kaelor grabbed Lyssara instinctively, shielding her as the child’s glow intensified.Draven didn’t move at all.He was watching the end of something he had calculated for too long to pretend he didn’t recognize it.Arinya ran forward.“No!” she screamed again, voice breaking now. “Mama!”Rhydan caught her mid-run and held her back tightly.She fought him.She actually fought him.Tiny fists pounding against his ch
Claimed by Three CHAPTER 69
Kaelor’s POVThe moment “You” was spoken back at her, Kaelor felt the shift in reality like a blade turning inside the air.This wasn’t a fight anymore.It was reconciliation.And that was far more dangerous.Aurenya stood in the center of the clearing, silver light no longer flickering beneath her skin but flowing like a second bloodstream.Opposite her stood the other self.The missing half.The split made flesh.And between them—the bond.It pulsed like a living thing trying to decide whether it wanted to exist as one or remain torn forever.Kaelor raised a hand instinctively, trying to stabilize the field around them.The energy collapsed again.Useless.Everything was becoming irrelevant except them.Rhydan pushed himself up from the ground, coughing sharply. “Aurenya!”But she didn’t look at him.Not really.Her eyes were locked on the other version of herself like everything else had been removed from existence.“I didn’t ask for this,” Aurenya whispered.The other Aurenya til
Claimed by Three CHAPTER 68
Rhydan’s POVThe moment the wards shattered, the world stopped pretending it was stable.The air didn’t just change—it broke apart.Like reality had been holding its breath for years and finally exhaled too hard.Rhydan tightened his grip on Aurenya instinctively.But she wasn’t fully in his arms anymore.Not the way she had been seconds ago.Her body was still there.Warm.Real.Trembling violently against him.But her eyes—her eyes had changed.Not completely.Not enough for him to lose hope.But enough to terrify him anyway.Silver flickered beneath her gaze like something pacing behind her consciousness.“Aurenya,” he said sharply, forcing her name like it could anchor her back into herself. “Look at me.”She did.For one brief second.And his chest tightened painfully because she looked exhausted.Not physically.Existentially.Like she had been carrying two lives inside one body for too long.“I’m here,” she whispered softly.But the voice underneath the words—wasn’t entirel
Claimed by Three CHAPTER 67
Rhydan’s POVThe white didn’t fade.It stayed.Not like light.Like absence.Rhydan couldn’t feel the ground under him for a few seconds, like reality had forgotten to reattach itself properly after the explosion.Then sound returned first.Arinya coughing.Kaelor swearing under his breath.Lyssara crying out once—sharp, disoriented.But Aurenya—Aurenya was gone from where she stood.Rhydan shot forward instantly. “Aurenya!”Nothing.Only a faint silver distortion where she had been.Like the air was still remembering her shape.Draven stood perfectly still.Too still.Kaelor’s voice was tight. “Tell me that didn’t just complete.”Draven didn’t answer immediately.That silence was worse than any confirmation.Then—“It began,” Draven said.Rhydan turned on him instantly. “Begun?”His voice cracked.“Where is she?”Draven’s gaze finally shifted slightly.Not to the clearing.Not to Rhydan.To the distortion.“She is not in one place anymore.”Arinya took a step forward. “What does tha
Claimed by Three CHAPTER 66
Aurenya’s POV“Don’t leave me incomplete.”The words shattered the air the moment they left my mouth.The shadow stopped moving.So did everything else.Even the wind outside the camp seemed to hesitate, like the world itself was waiting to see what I would choose.Rhydan’s grip tightened instantly around me. “Aurenya—don’t.”But I couldn’t look at him.Not because I didn’t want to.Because I finally could look at her.At myself.The version standing only a few feet away now, silver-eyed and impossibly still.Whole in all the ways I had never been.Broken in all the ways I couldn’t remember surviving.The shadow tilted her head slightly.“You still think I am leaving you,” she said softly.My throat tightened painfully. “Aren’t you?”For a moment—something unbearably sad crossed her face.Then she whispered—“No.”A pause.“I am returning you.”The words landed somewhere deep inside me.Not in my mind.In the space that had always felt wrong.Like a bone healed badly.Like a heartbe
Claimed by Three CHAPTER 65
Rhydan’s POV“No.”Rhydan moved before thought.His arm snapped tighter around Aurenya, pulling her back into his chest like he could physically anchor her soul in place.The shadow’s hand stopped mid-air.Not because it hesitated.Because something in Rhydan’s movement had… registered.Like it recognized resistance.Aurenya’s breath hitched sharply. “Rhydan…”“I said no,” he repeated, voice low now. Dangerous in a different way. “You are not taking her.”The shadow finally looked at him.Really looked.And for the first time—its expression shifted.Not anger.Not amusement.Recognition.“You think I’m taking her,” it said softly.Rhydan didn’t answer.Kaelor stepped forward slightly, Lyssara still in his arms. “Rhydan, don’t escalate this.”“I’m not escalating anything,” Rhydan snapped. “I’m stopping it.”Arinya stood firmly in front of them again, fists clenched so tight her small arms trembled.“No one is taking Mama,” she said again.But her voice shook this time.Not fear.Press
Claimed by Three CHAPTER TWENTY
Aurenya’s POVThey didn’t come again.That was the worst part.Not silence.Control.Like whatever made it had decided we were already aware.Rhydan moved first. “We’re leaving. Now.”Kaelor didn’t argue this time. He was already at the door, checking outside through the crack before pushing it wi
Claimed by Three CHAPTER NINETEEN
Aurenya’s POVThe silence after Draven’s last words didn’t fade.It stayed.Heavy. Pressing. Alive in a way silence shouldn’t be.I sat there, staring at nothing in particular, while everything inside me tried to reorganize itself around information I didn’t ask for.Incomplete.Sealed.Split.None
Claimed by Three CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Aurenya’s POVThe moment Draven said it, the room shifted again.Not the air.Not the light.Something deeper—like the idea itself had weight.“…Calling it?” I repeated slowly.Rhydan’s expression tightened immediately. “No.”Kaelor didn’t argue. That alone said enough.Draven didn’t look at either
Claimed by Three CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Aurenya’s POVI didn’t sleep again after that.Not properly.Every time I closed my eyes, it felt like something was waiting just behind them—patient, steady, like it knew I would eventually look inward again.So I stayed awake.Or tried to.The room was quieter now.Rhydan had left the edge of the
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