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Author: Sophie Lane
last update publish date: 2026-08-24 06:01:46

The sun had barely risen when Emily woke.

For a few seconds, she didn't know where she was.

There was no ancient chamber.

No Gate.

No screaming.

No darkness.

Just sunlight spilling through the curtains.

She slowly sat up.

Then she remembered.

Kael.

The Gate.

Elara.

The First Wolf.

The creature beneath the world.

Her promise.

Forever.

Emily looked down at her wrist.

The black crescent was gone.

She exhaled.

"Good."

A voice came from the doorway.

"Talking to yourself already?"

Emily looked up.

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    The cry came again.Soft.Small.Almost helpless.Yet it carried across the entire field with a force that made the trees bend away from it. Emily stood frozen, staring into the widening crack beneath her feet. Kael had one arm around Elias, while the other Kael stood beside them, his eyes fixed on the opening. Auren looked as though he had seen the end of existence itself.Emily couldn't stop staring.“That isn't possible,” she whispered.Auren shook his head.“It shouldn't be.”The baby's cry came again.Emily's chest tightened.There was something familiar about it.Not because she had heard it before.Because somehow, she remembered it.A memory she had never lived.A memory buried so deeply inside her that she hadn't even known it existed.She saw herself standing in darkness.She was younger.Much younger.She was holding a baby.Kael was beside her.But the baby wasn't Elias.Emily's breath caught.“Kael…”He looked at her.“What?”“I remember something.”“What?”She pressed a

  • Moonbound   The Thousandth Door

    Emily couldn't move.The woman standing beyond the final doorway looked exactly like her, but there was something profoundly wrong about seeing her alive when every other version of herself was lying motionless behind the thousands of open doors. The dead Emilys weren't simply bodies scattered across different worlds. Some were young. Some were old. Some wore clothing from eras Emily had never seen. Some had scars she didn't recognize. Some were still holding weapons. Others were curled against walls as though they had died trying to escape. Yet every one of them had the same face.Every one of them had been her.And the woman standing in front of them looked at Emily with an expression that wasn't anger or hatred.It was pity.Emily swallowed.“What happened to them?”The other Emily didn't answer immediately. Her eyes moved past Emily toward Kael, then toward Elias, and finally toward the other version of Kael standing a few feet away.“They made the same mistake you are about to ma

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    Emily stopped several feet from them.Every instinct in her body screamed at her to run toward Kael, to grab him, to pull him away from whatever had taken hold of him. But she couldn't move. The two men standing in front of her looked like Kael, sounded like Kael, even carried the same familiar scars, yet the blackness in their eyes made them strangers. Elias stood behind Emily, trembling so violently that she could feel it through his hand.“Daddy?” he whispered.Both Kaels turned toward him.Their heads moved at exactly the same time.Emily's stomach twisted.The Kael from her timeline smiled.The other Kael smiled too.Then they spoke together.“Not yet.”Elias screamed.Emily pulled him behind her.“No.”The two Kaels stepped forward.Emily raised her hands.“If there's something inside you, fight it.”The Kael closest to her stopped.For a moment, his face changed.The blackness in his eyes flickered.“Emily…”Her heart jumped.“Kael?”He looked at her, and for one brief second s

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  • Moonbound   The Prisoner

    The black eye remained suspended above them, perfectly still against the night sky. Emily could not tear her gaze away from it. She had spent so long believing the First Soul was the beginning of everything that the idea of something existing before it made her feel as though the ground beneath her had disappeared. The First Soul had been ancient beyond comprehension. It had created worlds, souls, possibilities, and timelines. It had known things no living being could possibly know. Yet now a voice from somewhere beyond the stars had called it a prisoner. Not a creator. Not a god. A prisoner. Emily tightened her grip on Elias's hand while Kael moved instinctively closer to her, and even the other Kael stopped arguing with reality long enough to stare upward. None of them spoke because there was nothing they could say. The truth they had fought for was suddenly beginning to look like the smallest piece of something far more terrifying.Auren was the first to move. He stepped forward sl

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