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Chapter Seventy-Eight: Poison in the Walls

작가: Evelyn Hart
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-08-21 00:59:43

The fortress never felt more like a cage. The stone corridors that had once offered safety now echoed with whispers that followed Saraphina wherever she walked. Servants who once smiled bowed stiffly and hurried away. Guards glanced at her too long, their eyes filled with suspicion. Even the air itself seemed heavier, pressing down on her shoulders with invisible hands.

Lucian never left her side. His presence was a shield, but even he could not silence the murmurs. At night, when the fortress quieted, she heard them clearer than ever. Whispers slithered beneath her door, soft voices in the dark. She pressed her hands to her ears, but the words still seeped in, carried on the breath of shadows.

“You are one of us.”

“You cannot hide forever.”

“You will break them all.”

She would wake trembling, her sheets tangled around her legs, sweat chilling her skin. Lucian would rise beside her, his voice steady, his hands warm. “It is not them, Saraphina. It is the shadows playing tricks. Do not
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    The courtyard was frozen in silence after Astra disappeared. Shadows folded over her body like water, then snapped shut, leaving only the faint trace of her rage echoing in the air. The space where she had stood seemed to shiver with absence, as though reality itself recoiled from her departure.The crowd pressed forward, murmurs rising, fear and awe mixing in a tide of confusion. Some stared at the broken talisman lying discarded near the dais, its once blinding light now nothing more than a dull, lifeless stone. Others looked at Saraphina as though she were no longer entirely human, their eyes wide, their mouths parted in hushed disbelief.Lucian’s hand brushed against hers, steady and grounding. His voice, low enough for only her ears, broke through the whirlwind. “Do not falter. They are watching.”Saraphina’s chest rose and fell. Her pulse thundered in her ears. Every eye was on her, every whisper an accusation or a prayer. She wanted to collapse under the weight of it, to escape

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    The fortress walls were still trembling from the echoes of Saraphina’s defiance when Astra vanished. One moment she stood on the dais, the dead talisman hanging against her chest like a corpse; the next, shadows folded around her body, and she was gone.The courtyard was left in stunned silence, but Astra had no time for their voices. She reappeared in the heart of her sanctuary, a chamber buried deep within the mountain, where no light dared linger.The moment her feet touched the black stone floor, her composure shattered. She tore the talisman from her neck and hurled it across the chamber. It hit the wall with a dull clatter and lay there, dim and lifeless, like a carcass drained of blood.Astra’s scream followed, raw and feral. She struck the wall with her fist until the skin split, until her knuckles left smears of blood across the stone.“How,” she hissed between ragged breaths, her voice breaking with fury. “How could she unravel what centuries of power had sealed?”Her hair c

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    The first scream tore through the courtyard like a blade. It was followed by another, then a chorus, as half the crowd surged toward Astra’s dais in blind devotion and the other half broke ranks, charging to protect Saraphina.Steel rang against steel. The fortress, once a place of unity, now cracked down its heart.Saraphina’s shadows tightened around Astra’s ankles, dragging against the dais with stubborn strength. The talisman writhed like a living thing, pulsing so violently that cracks split the stone floor beneath Astra’s feet.“Fools!” Astra’s voice thundered, sharp with panic and fury. “You dare raise your hands against your salvation? Then drown in your betrayal!”With a vicious wrench, she lifted her arms. A surge of dark energy exploded outward from the talisman, a wave that threw people to the ground.Saraphina was hurled backward, her body slamming against the stones. Her bonds snapped under the force, leaving her wrists raw but free. She gasped for breath, every muscle s

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    The courtyard did not empty quickly. Even after Astra’s call for justice, the soldiers lingered, muttering to one another, their eyes darting between Saraphina and Lucian as though deciding whether to cheer or strike. The torches burned low, throwing long shadows across the stone, and every shadow felt like an accusation.Saraphina stood frozen, her breath caught in her throat. She could feel the weight of their stares pressing into her skin. Her hands itched with the urge to summon the shadows, to lash out, to silence them all—but she did not move. That was what Astra wanted.Lucian’s arm pressed against hers, steady and strong. “We are leaving,” he said, his voice a blade of command.No one stopped them as he guided her from the courtyard, though she felt the sting of every whisper at her back. Kael followed close, his cloak whipping in the night wind, his face grim.They did not speak until they reached the safety of the council chamber. Lucian slammed the heavy oak door shut, the

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