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Chapter Eight

Author: Richiegirl
last update publish date: 2026-05-03 23:14:56

Kia

I didn’t sleep. Every time I tried, my body reminded me why that wasn’t happening.

The pain in my shoulder wasn’t dull or fading like it should have been. It was sharp and constant, like it wanted me to remember every second of what they did.

I lay there staring at the ceiling for a long time, then I gave up and sat up slowly, biting down on a breath when the movement pulled at the burn.

When the knock came, I didn’t answer. I didn’t move. I just stared at the door like maybe it would go
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    LiamThe response from the High Council arrived eleven days after the dissolution document was sent, carried by a formal courier in Council colors who looked deeply uncomfortable to be delivering anything to an address that wasn't a proper estate.Liam read it first, standing in the cold morning doorway, before bringing it inside."Well?" Ryder asked, from his customary position at the edge of the property, close enough now that he'd been permitted into the outer rooms, though still careful about the inner ones."They're opening a full inquiry," Liam said. "Into Anastasia specifically. Into the breeder decree generally. Into the attunement compounds, the suppression protocol, the circumstances of Kia's parents' deaths." He scanned the page again. "They're also formally recognizing the dissolution of the decree, effective immediately. No further argument required.""That was fast," Kratavak said, coming up beside them."Voss," Liam said. "He

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    KratavakThe morning after the council meeting, Kratavak found Liam sitting alone at the edge of the eastern field, the dissolution papers spread across his knees, a pen forgotten in his loose grip."You haven't slept," Kratavak said, settling onto the frost-stiff grass beside him without invitation."Neither have you," Liam said, not looking up. "I can see it in the way you're sitting. You always sit like that when you've been awake too long, like your spine is negotiating with gravity.""That's a very specific observation.""Thirty years gives you very specific observations," Liam said. He set the pen down properly this time, capped it, the small precise gesture of a man buying himself a moment. "I keep reading the same paragraph. The clause about hereditary obligation. I've written it four different ways and none of them feel like enough.""Enough for what?""Enough to undo six years in a single document," Liam said. "I know that's

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    XanderHe called the meeting for the following morning, in the main room, with everyone present, including Bren, and including, at Kia's insistence, Sable, who had traveled the three days from Endra the moment word reached her of what had happened."I want to be useful," Sable had said simply, upon arrival. "And I want to see them again. The data alone is worth the journey, but that's not the only reason."Xander stood near the head of the room, though the room no longer had a head in the way it once would have under any previous arrangement."We need a structure," he said, addressing all of them. "Not a hierarchy in the old sense, with one person above the rest. Kia is right that nobody currently alive has ever had to build a balanced one. So we start now, from nothing, deliberately."

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    KiaHe came at dusk, exactly as arranged, and she watched him approach from the window the way she had watched him from a different window in a different settlement weeks earlier, except this time, she crossed the room. She opened the door herself before he could knock.He stopped on the threshold, visibly startled by the gesture.He looked different from how she remembered. Thinner, carrying the specific leanness of eight weeks of insufficient sleep and a curse fought without its usual relief valve. His eyes were the amber she remembered from years of cleaning the same floors he stood on, no grey threading through them tonight, which told her something quiet about the discipline it had taken him to arrive here clear-eyed and steady."Kia," he said, her name landing carefully, as he'd practiced it."Come in," she said. "Sit."He sat. He looked around the small room, at the twins sleeping in their crib in the corner, and something complicated moved across his face, the same complicated

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    XanderHe had been watching her for four days.From the specific distance that allowed observation without intrusion, the upper floor of a building across from the tea house where Bren had arranged a room with a window facing the correct direction, the kind of arrangement that eleven years of servi

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    Kratavak"She's not dead."He said it to the empty room, to the packed bag on the bed, to the mountain dark outside the window. Not for the first time. He had been saying it for three weeks, quietly, to himself, because saying it to Ryder produced a conversation he didn't have the patience for and

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    LiamThe village of Cress was three territories east of the pack boundary and had a tavern that served information alongside its beer if you ordered correctly.Liam had been here twice. The first time two weeks ago, following a rumour about a dark-haired pregnant woman who had asked about routes ea

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