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Fifty-Seven

Author: Ashley Snyder
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-01 03:55:49

*MARLOW*

Marlow walked the perimeter like a man learning to count his shame. The wind off the northern ridge smelled of metal and old snow, that particular cold that has a taste in the throat and a memory in the bones. He had thought for a long time that he could bury what he’d done under tireless work, under doctrine, under the Old Man’s tidy explanations. But the mountain had a way of returning favors; it did not forgive what men told it to forgive. It only reflected.

He had left the Old Man’s camp with a gift that felt like a curse: a clarity that came from having walked inside the engine of an idea and seen every cog. He’d seen people change their faces until they matched the doctrine they were given. He’d seen men accept the removal of things that made a life soft—the child, the laugh, the permissive moment—and call it purification. Joanne had called it loss; she had been right. He had stood beside her as

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  • Hunter/Hunted   Sixty-Eight

    *THEO*Theo had traveled through shadows for so long that the storm beyond the mountain’s long shadow seemed almost a familiar rattle in his bones. But inside the house—now a monument of long silence broken—the atmosphere was different. There was a steady pulse beneath the long bones of the earth, a sense that the long night was finally over.He moved through the battered hallways, lighter than he’d been in weeks. The long shadows finally retreating behind dawn’s gentle promise, and there—near the fractured hearth—Amaya’s quiet presence held a new weight. Their relation had deepened in these shadowed months; her strength, her silence, her love had become a steady anchor for him. Their bond—simmering, unspoken—had finally been tested and found true in the long silence, and now, both understood that love’s quiet resilience had outlasted shadows.They stood together, watching the lon

  • Hunter/Hunted   Sixty-Seven

    Two weeks had passed since the dawn when the shadows finally broke into light. The storm had retreated beyond the mountains, leaving the land battered but breathing again. The house—battered, fractured by long shadows—had become a place of fragile recovery. And Blaire… Blaire had returned.She was no longer a whisper in the shadows. No longer a ghost lingering at the long dark’s edge. She was whole—solid, steady, as if the long silence had been a long, deep breath that finally escaped into the dawn. Her form radiated calm amid the battered walls. Her green eyes, deep and luminous, held a quiet strength that was no longer longing but rooted in something divine.Jason had soared into thriving—a creature of pure, unfiltered joy. The boy—her vessel—had responded to the long silence by responding to love. His tiny limbs moved with agility now, learning to walk, to explore a world no longer shadowed by long-dead echoes. His fa

  • Hunter/Hunted   Sixty-Six

    *SEBASTIAN*The rain was relentless as Sebastian drove through the battered landscape, the storm pressing heavy against the battered walls and shattered plains. Wind howled like a mournful beast, twisting the landscape into ghost shapes that danced in the long shadows of the storm. Thunder rumbled in the d

  • Hunter/Hunted   Sixty-Five

    *CHARLES*He stared at the letter, reading the words again and again, feeling the tremor in his hand. The letter told of her days observing Blaire’s son—how he moved, how he responded—and her conviction that the boy, Jason, was responding not just to shadows or long-forgotten echoes but to Blaire’s spirit, calling from the long shadows of the mountain. Her words burned in his mind: “The boy may be the key.”He ran trembling fingers through his long, dark hair and looked at the storm outside, then back at the letter. The storm’s fury was a reflection of his own chaos—hope and despair, conviction and dread, warring inside him. The long silence Blaire’s spirit had left behind was no longer silent. It echoed in the bloodline, in the vessel that responded with wild joy and unsteady purpose.Could he trust it? Did he dare? The stakes were everything—his grandson, their future, and Bl

  • Hunter/Hunted   Sixty-Four

    *XAVIA*The house lay in a tangled, heavy silence—an unspoken pause that stretched long into the evening, fractured only by the faint patter of tiny feet echoing softly down the hallways, like a fragile heartbeat that refused to stop. Outside, the storm tore across the battered landscape, wind twisting and howling like an animal wounded and unruly, fierce and restless. Clouds swirling overhead, heavy with rain and fury—yet inside, the house felt still, as if even the shadows dared not intrude.Xavia watched from her shadowed corner, her eyes sharp, long trained in darkness, now flickering with a strange, fierce clarity. Every night—every moment—the long years of discipline and silence stirred again with a quiet resolve. Her instincts—long sharpened and buried deep in her bloodline—flickered to dangerous life. Her eyes fixated on the small figure wandering the long, fractured halls.Blaire’s son, now bare

  • Hunter/Hunted   Sixty-Three

    *XAVIA*The days had fallen into a strange, suspended rhythm—an unspoken time measured in the slow unfolding of the boy’s strange behavior. Outside, the wind twisted through the battered landscape, howling like a distant, restless beast. Inside, the house was an uneasy vessel of calm—an e

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