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Forbidden Under the Blood Moon chapter 380
POV: WREN THORNE“Mama, Papa stopped singing. The cord on my wrist is burning, and the water is showing a snowy road, and a lot of grey cloaks are carrying Papa north. Please do not let go of me.”I had been sitting beside the Moon Well since midnight with Tansy asleep on my lap, listening to the water hum Kade’s lullaby. I did not know what had woken her. I only knew that one moment I had heard his voice, rough and sweet and slightly out of tune, and the next, it was gone, cut off in the middle of a note, and the silence that followed was the worst sound I have ever heard.Now I stared down. The silver ring was blazing. In its dark skin I saw a road under a pale moon, a company of men in grey cloaks, and between them a litter with a tall man lying limp across it. His head hung to one side. His hair had come loose. I knew every line of that body. I had slept against it for a year.“Kade,” I whispered. It was the only word I had. “Kade.”He did not stir. Beside the litter walked an old
Forbidden Under the Blood Moon chapter 379
POV: KADE ASHBORN“I have waited all night at this river for a messenger who is never going to come. So come out, old friend. Show me your face, because I think I already know it, and I need to hear you say it.”The ford at Greywater lay black and silver under a pale half moon. I stood at the water’s edge with the snow squeaking under my boots and my breath rising in clouds. Behind me, the reeds hid Orsin’s archers, forty bows strung and waiting. In front of me, the river whispered over its stones, loud in the dark, and the far bank was only shadow.I had waited since dusk. No messenger came. I knew none would.“Kade,” said a soft voice behind me.I turned. Dorn stood twenty paces up the bank, alone, his grey cloak pulled close and his hands folded in front of him. He looked so ordinary that my heart cracked. He might have been out for his evening walk. He might have been about to tell me the horses wanted shoeing.“You came,” I said.“You told me not to.” A small tired smile. “I am a
Forbidden Under the Blood Moon chapter 378
POV: WREN THORNE“Lady Thorne, forgive the intrusion. I have come to speak as one Thorne to another, and I promise that no one will be hurt if you simply listen to what I offer in exchange for your husband.”The Moon Well was dark except for a ring of silver at its centre, and in that ring a face looked up at me. It was an old man’s face, long and fine boned, with silver hair braided down one shoulder and pale eyes that looked tired and gentle. There was my grandmother’s nose in it. There was a flicker of my father’s mouth. That frightened me more than a snarl would have.“Speaker Ansel,” Hesper said stiffly. She stood at my left. Selene held Tansy at my right. “You are bold, to wear that face in this water.”“I am old, Hesper, not bold. And I am sincere.” His voice rippled across the surface. “Wren. May I call you that? We share a great grandmother. I have watched you for a year. I know what you did, and why, and I know you did not understand the cost.”“Do not speak to me about the
Forbidden Under the Blood Moon chapter 377
POV: KADE ASHBORN“Sit down, Kade, and drink your tea before it goes cold. You have not slept in two nights, and I will not stand by and watch the last Ashborn fall asleep on his own two feet.”Dorn stood in the door of my study with a steaming cup in his hands and a small tray balanced on his arm. The candles had burned low. Outside, the courtyard was dark and still, and somewhere a night watch was calling the hour. I had spent the evening with Orsin and Cody over a map of the east road, and my mind was a knot of every name I did not want to say.“Thank you, old friend.”“Do not thank me. Drink.” He set the cup in my hand. His fingers brushed mine, quick and narrow and warm. “I made it myself.”The smell reached me before I lifted it. Sweet. Thin. Herbal. A smell I had carried since the courtyard, since the cobbles by the winch. I felt every hair on my arms rise. I held the cup under my chin so he would not see my face, and I breathed in slowly, and I knew.I wanted so badly to be wr
Forbidden Under the Blood Moon chapter 376
POV: WREN THORNE“Sparrow, you cannot keep the truth from them any longer. Forty families sleep in this mountain because you promised them safety. Tell them the binding is breaking because of what we did, or I will tell them myself.”Hesper stood in the doorway of the great hall with her stick planted like a spear. Behind her, the Hearth was full. Northern wolves sat on the long benches next to Vane survivors in grey. Ashborn mothers rocked sleeping babies. Boys sat on the rafters like owls. All of them had come in out of the snow because I had said they would be safe, and all of them were looking at me.I climbed onto a bench because I could not trust my legs to hold me in the open. My mouth was dry. I had practised this speech in my head for two nights, and every word had gone to dust.“I have something to tell you,” I said. “And I need you to let me finish.”The hall fell quiet. A baby fussed and was hushed.“You have felt it. Wolves losing control at the full moon. Old powers waki
Forbidden Under the Blood Moon chapter 375
POV: KADE ASHBORN“Alpha, I remember something. He hummed while he worked the winch. A gentle song, the kind a mother sings over a cradle. I did not want to say it in front of the others. I think it was the one about the little moon.”The young guard lay in the infirmary with his leg in a splint and his face the colour of candle wax. Morning light fell across the bandages. I had come at first bell, stiff from the road, with the glove still burning against my ribs and Brannic’s last words ringing in my head. I had meant to ask about the hooded man’s height or his smell. I had not meant to hear this.I pulled a stool close. “What is your name?”He blinked. “Pell, my lord.”“Pell.” I swallowed. “I did not know it until yesterday. I should have known it the day you took the oath. I am sorry.”“Nobody knows the names of the wall guards, my lord.”“I should.” My voice came out rough. “You took a spear for my gate. Tell me about the song, Pell. Slowly. Hum it if you can.”He licked his dry l
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