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CHAPTER 120 — Gate Three: Claim

Autor: Mercy V.
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By the third day, the sanctum felt smaller.

Not because the stone had shrunk.

Because there was less room left to hide.

***

Elowen sat at the curved table again, the Rite codex between her and Soryn. Gate One and Gate Two runes on the parchment had been marked with thin silver slashes—completed. Gate Three’s symbol waited below them: a crescent enclosing a single vertical line.

Claim.

Talia traced it lightly with one finger.

“Gate Three isn’t about power,” she said. “We have seen that. It isn’t about honesty. You’ve bled that already. It is about what you *reach for* in front of everyone.”

Elowen’s mouth was dry.

“I thought Gate One was about control,” she said. “Gate Two about truth. What’s left?”

“Choice,” Mae said. “Not the quiet kind you make in your head. The kind you make with witnesses. With consequences.”

Soryn folded her hands.

“Gate Three,” she said, “requires you to assert authority publicly. Not from behind someone. Not through another mouth. You will stand in the circle.
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