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Epilogue

Penulis: Jordana Faye
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-06-24 02:20:48

The candlelight flickered incessantly in the meticulously drawn circle that Autumn had outlined with ash and salt, its warm glow casting dancing shadows against the worn walls of her grandmother’s ancient ritual room. Outside, the soft spring wind rustled through the newly budded branches of cherry trees, creating a gentle, melodic sound that felt almost like a whisper. Meanwhile, inside the sanctuary of her past, the Veil waited and listened with an almost sentient presence.

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  • First Bite   When Mirrors Break

    The Council moved at midnight. Outside, the orchard soaked up the moonlight, trees casting tangled shadows that writhed across frostbitten earth. The air was sharp with anticipation, every leaf and blade of grass holding its breath.They came cloaked in silence, wrapped in sacred wards and assassination rites, thirteen strong and terrified. Each step was measured, boots muffled by layers of concealment charms, hearts pounding in unison beneath the folds of their ceremonial robes.They told themselves it was a precaution.That Autumn Jordan was not their enemy—yet.That this was containment, not execution.But the Hollow does not care about intention.

  • First Bite   The Veil Stirs

    Tristan He felt it before he saw it. An ache behind his eyes, a prickle along his skin, as if the world itself had drawn a sharp breath and held it. The silence rang louder than bells, unsettling the dust in the corners of the old house. A pressure drop. The air thickening, heavy and electric, as if a storm crouched just out of sight. His bond mark ignited just above his ribs, a flare of heat and memory that made him stagger, clutching at the balcony rail. The kind of magic that didn’t ask for permission. Didn’t whisper. It roared. He stood at the balcony of the Mirabella estate, watching the sky flicker between dusk and something stranger. The sun hadn’t set, but the light had… bent, pooling in corners and rippling across the fiel

  • First Bite   What Jade Remembers

    Jade wasn’t asleep.She wasn’t awake, either.She was adrift—suspended in that thin place just beneath dreaming, where memories and magic blur into one long hallway of half-formed truths. The air shimmered with impossible colors, and every footstep echoed with the weight of someone else’s longing. Shadows drifted past her, whispering names she’d almost forgotten.She felt the pain. Distant. Like thunder behind a wall. It rolled through her, slow and relentless, a reminder she was still tethered to a body somewhere far away. Sometimes the ache sharpened, bright and quick as lightning. Mostly it lingered, dull and heavy, just on the edge of consciousness.She felt the bond. Thin. Splintered. Still there. It glimmered at the edge of her awareness, a silver thread fraying but unbroken, tugging her gently ba

  • First Bite   The Sovereign's Choice

    Council Interlude – Behind the FlameThey met without her. The air in the chamber was thick with secrets and lingering power, the walls pulsing faintly with the echo of ancient spells. Shadows stretched across the floor like spilled ink, wrapping each figure in a cloak of concealment and intent.Of course they did.No summoning circle. No record. No vote.Just thirteen shadows around a table carved from the bones of old seers and buried kings. The surface was etched with sigils that shimmered beneath their hands, casting fractured light onto faces that rarely showed fear. Here, history and ambition braided together.Lady Vesper spoke first.“She will not submit.”The revenant grunted. “Then she is a threat.”

  • First Bite   Rise of the Fourth

    Tristan The bond broke at dawn, when the first thin light crept through the library’s high windows and painted the world in aching blue. Tristan’s dreams shattered, yanked away like a curtain torn from its rail, leaving him gasping in the half-light. Not completely. Not like a string cut clean. It tore. The sensation was jagged, raw—a rending that echoed through marrow and memory both. In that instant, every shared laugh, every comfort, every promise between them seemed to unravel, threads pulled loose by invisible hands. Like something alive being peeled away. He jolted awake in the Mirabella library, hand to his chest, breath gone. The shelves loomed around him, cold and silent, their shadows stretching long across the battered rug. His heart pounded as if trying to find the lost rhythm of the bond. The bond that had lived between them—golden, warm, steady—was now a splintered current, cold and twitching like static beneath his ribs. He pressed his palm flat, searching for t

  • First Bite   Thread of the First Flame

    The Veil led her north, deeper into the wilds than she had ever dared alone. The air grew sharp and thin, laced with the scent of frost and the hush of old secrets. Each step felt like moving through a memory she didn’t recognize, with the world blurring at the edges.Past the black river, whose waters glimmered with an oily sheen in the moonlight. Past the trees that no longer cast shadows, their branches twisted into shapes that seemed to watch her pass. Past the edge of any map the Council recognized, where the land itself felt unfinished, raw with possibility and danger.Autumn followed it without a word, without a spell, without her friends.The pendants hung heavy around her neck—one warm, one cold. The first pulsed with a steady, comforting heat, like a heartbeat she could borrow. The other sent chills down her spine, a reminder of everything she&rsq

  • First Bite   Nine

    “Ah, so Jaiden has conveniently neglected to mention that he has more older siblings than just Tristan? It's intriguing to think about what other secrets he might be hiding from his companions.” Alexis cast a teasing glance at Haiden, a mischievous grin playing on her lips. However, deep down, she

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  • First Bite   Eight

    Classes were pretty normal, boring but normal, taking notes having tests, but boring none the less. On the weekends, I would go out to the bars with Jade and go on little shopping sprees. Homecoming came and went. Alex came to visit then to see how we were doing and of course he dragged us to the f

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  • First Bite   Ten

    As the morning sun trickled through the sheer, teal curtains, it painted soft patterns across Autumn’s bed, causing dust motes to swirl like ethereal spirits dancing in the gentle light. The lingering scent of sandalwood intermingled with the distinctive aroma of Tristan’s cologne, creating an into

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  • First Bite   Seven

    We arrived at the mall, and frankly, Jade and I were ready to shop until we dropped. Which seemed Likely at this mall. We went to Sephora, Coach, DSW, Old Navy, Ulta and many more stores. The guys hoped for the day to end at any time. We shopped for a couple hours and Tristan handed me some gorgeou

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