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Chapter 128: Test
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Luna’s Rebellion Chapter 130: Fragment
The fire burned long after they were gone. It wasn’t like normal fire. No crackle, no smoke, no smell. Just a ring of pure, silver-blue heat in the snow, so bright it made the shadows pull back. I didn’t want to touch it, but my eyes kept going to the center. It wasn’t empty. The ground inside the circle looked… wrong. Too dark, like the snow had melted straight through to a night sky that shouldn’t be there. It pulsed faintly, in rhythm with my heartbeat. “Elara!” Cassian’s voice tore me away from it. He was running toward me with three sentries at his back. His armor was dented, his hair plastered to his forehead with sweat. “You’re bleeding,” he said the moment he reached me. I looked down. My right hand was slick with silver light. Not blood—at least, not human blood. The shield’s light was leaking through my skin in thin streams, fading before it hit the snow. “I’m fine,” I lied. Cassian didn’t buy it. “You burned too much.” “They would’ve broken the wards if I hadn’t.”
Luna’s Rebellion Chapter 129: The Opening Move
The Circle didn’t wait long to answer. Less than forty-eight hours after the courtyard duel, the mountain woke me with a sound I hadn’t heard in months—an alarm horn. Cassian was already moving when I shoved the door open, half-dressed, hair a wild mess. “South gate,” he said, voice clipped. “They’re here.” “They?” My heart knew before my head caught up. “The Circle.” “Not all of them. Just enough to make a point.” We ran. The corridors were already alive with motion—warriors strapping on armor, mages shouting ward commands, the air tight with the copper tang of magic. By the time we reached the gate, the point had been made. The valley below was on fire. Not natural fire. This burned blue and silver, flames leaping higher than treetops, licking the clouds. The snow melted in jagged, steaming rivers that cut deep scars through the mountainside. And in the middle of it, shapes moved. Cloaked. Masked. Carrying weapons that pulsed like living things. They didn’t attack immediate
Luna’s Rebellion Chapter 128: Test
They didn’t make me wait long. By the next evening, the Circle sent someone. I felt them before I saw them—pressure at the edge of my mind, like fingers testing the edges of a locked door. The shield responded instantly, flaring inside me like a wolf baring its teeth. Cassian caught the change in my expression. “They’re here.” I nodded, already moving toward the courtyard. The sky was bruised with twilight, the last rays of sun catching on the frost-laced stones. And in the center of it, a figure waited. Tall. Cloaked. Bareheaded, with hair the color of iron and eyes like molten glass. They smiled when they saw me. Not warm. Not friendly. A predator’s smile. “Elara,” they said, my name rolling off their tongue like a test they already knew I’d fail. “You’ve been… experimenting.” I didn’t answer. They stepped closer, and the pressure intensified—an invisible hand trying to slip inside my skin. The shield shuddered, but didn’t yield. “You’ve tampered with the binding,” they we
Luna’s Rebellion Chapter 127: Pull
The next morning, I woke with a plan and a headache. The headache came from the tether—they’d pulled on it again while I slept. Not enough to wake me, but enough to remind me who held the leash. The plan came from spite. Cassian had already commandeered the far table in the library by the time I got there. A pile of old, leather-bound tomes sat beside him, along with the worst coffee I’d ever smelled. “You’re late,” he said without looking up. “I’m unpredictable,” I said, dropping into the chair across from him. “Makes me harder to control.” He glanced up. “You’ve been thinking about it all night, haven’t you?” “Yes. And I’ve decided the only way to get ahead of the shield is to make it mine before it makes me theirs.” Cassian leaned back, arms crossed. “You mean pull.” “Yes.” He rubbed his face. “I was hoping I’d misread you yesterday.” “You didn’t.” I opened one of the tomes—a catalog of celestial enchantments—and scanned the cramped handwriting. Most of it was useless t
Luna’s Rebellion Chapter 126: Breach Test
The shield was still there when I woke—silent, invisible, but present. Like the weight of a dream you can’t remember but can’t shake. By midday, I knew I couldn’t leave it alone. If Teren thought this thing was his leash, then I needed to know exactly how to slip it. Cassian wasn’t thrilled with the idea. “You want to break the Circle’s magic? Inside their fortress?” “I want to understand it,” I corrected, pulling on my boots. “If that means breaking it… bonus.” He sighed like he’d been cast in the role of the reluctant voice of reason but had long since stopped believing I’d listen. “Where?” “Lower vault.” Cassian froze halfway into his coat. “You mean the restricted floor? The one with every detection ward known to mortal or immortal kind?” “Yes.” He muttered something under his breath that I pretended not to hear. The vault was three levels down, past two locked gates and a narrow stairwell carved directly into the rock. I didn’t need to pick the locks—the shield seemed t
Luna’s Rebellion Chapter 125: Faultlines
The shield felt like a second skin—weightless, invisible, but always there. Every step I took, every shift in my breathing, it whispered back to me. Not in words—more like pressure. Like the faint awareness of standing too close to a cliff edge. By midmorning, I couldn’t stand it anymore. Cassian had been shadowing me through the Circle’s upper halls, trying—and failing—to pretend it was casual. “We could take a walk,” he suggested, nodding toward the gardens. “I want to train.” He frowned. “They’re not going to let you—” “They’re not my jailers,” I cut in. “At least, not officially.” The training hall was quiet when we arrived. Pale light filtered through the high windows, glinting off racks of practice weapons. No one else was here—yet. Cassian leaned against the wall, arms folded. “All right. What’s the plan?” “I want to know what this shield does. What it really does.” He straightened. “You mean—test it?” “Push it,” I corrected. “See where it bends. See where it breaks.
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