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Chapter 14 – The Weight of Silence

Author: Sonia.C
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-28 05:11:29

The days following the Luna ceremony blurred into one another. The fortress echoed with celebration, with endless feasts and songs sung in Selene’s name. Every corner of the kingdom buzzed with her presence—her laughter ringing like a bell, her commands slipping easily from her lips as though she had been born to wear the crown of Luna.

Aria avoided it all.

She sought refuge in the infirmary, where the air smelled of herbs and iron, where the cries of the wounded and the weary left no room for her own.

There, she could forget herself.

There, she was needed.

From dawn until the dead of night, she moved tirelessly from bed to bed, her hands bandaging wounds, her voice soft with comfort, her fingers trembling only when no one could see.

“Hold him still,” she murmured to one of the younger healers as she stitched a gash across a soldier’s chest. Her hands worked swiftly, steadily, though her arms ached. “If it tears, he could lose too much blood.”

The healer nodded, eyes wide with nerves,
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