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117. We're home
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2026-10-09 19:27:20
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Reborn as Betrayed Luna 118. Peace
Livia’s POVThe morning sun felt warm against my skin as it broke through the heavy grey clouds.For the first time in months, the air didn't smell like sulphur, wolfsbane, or burning wood. It just smelled like crisp autumn rain and cold mountain wind.I stood near the edge of the palace balcony, looking down at the Grand Sun Court. Below us, the courtyard was bustling with activity, but the violence was gone. Northern warriors and city guards were working side by side to clear the broken marble flagstones and haul away the scorched timber from the gates. Citizens were slowly coming out of their homes, tentative and quiet, realizing that the terror of the Queen Mother’s rule had finally ended.Footsteps echoed softly behind me on the polished stone floor.I didn't need to turn around to know who it was. The steady, warm pull of our mate bond pulsed gently in my chest, filling me with a sense of deep peace.Asher walked up beside me, resting his arms on the stone railing. He had wash
Reborn as Betrayed Luna 117. We're home
Livia’s POVThe monster that had once been Queen Mother Eleanor lunged across the shattered flagstones of the courtyard, her four bone tendrils dripping with hiss-hot silver-bane.She moved with an unnatural, terrifying speed—a blur of torn velvet, black chitin, and glowing crimson eyes. The air around her shimmered with intense, unnatural heat. It was the volatile alchemy in her blood, cooking her from the inside out, turning every breath she drew into a furnace blast that melted the mortar between the marble stones.She wants me dead before her own body collapses.I didn't try to block her head-on. A strike from a creature carrying that much weight and momentum would have snapped both my shortswords in half and broken my ribs. Instead, I channeled my Warden magic down into my boots, planting my heels firm against the frost-slick stone, and threw my body sideways into a low, rolling dive.CRASH!Eleanor slammed into the spot where I had been standing a fraction of a second earlier.
Reborn as Betrayed Luna 116. Dead Silence
Livia’s POVThe heavy oak doors of the Imperial Citadel lay shattered in a heap of splintered wood and twisted iron.My chest heaved as cold sweat trickled down my spine. The frost magic I had poured into the main archway had done its work; the stone mortar had cracked, allowing Asher’s battering ram to punch clean through the barrier in three massive blows."Vanguard, forward!" Asher’s roar echoed off the soaring stone walls of the outer courtyard.Five hundred northern warriors poured through the smoking breach, shields raised, weapons bared, ready for a bloody volley of crossbow bolts or a wall of spear points.Instead, we stepped into dead silence.The grand inner courtyard was completely deserted. High marble pillars flanked the cobblestone plaza, cast in deep shadows by the rising morning sun. Broken banners fluttered uselessly in the cold wind, and the royal guards who should have been holding the barricades had fled, leaving their iron halberds scattered across the flagstones
Reborn as Betrayed Luna 115. Own Execution
Livia’s POVThe open plains outside the Imperial capital stretched out before us like a yellow sheet of dry grass.Four days after we crushed the trap at Stonebridge Gorge, our army finally reached the outer perimeter of the capital city. The great white walls of the Imperial Citadel rose into the grey sky, towering higher than any mountain fortress in the North. But the grand city did not look proud today.Smoke from the burned outposts hovered over the stone battlements. The massive iron-reinforced gates were barred shut, and the once-busy roads leading into the markets were completely deserted. The news of what happened in the gorge had reached the capital long before we did, and the terror inside the walls was almost something you could smell on the wind.Asher pulled his horse to a stop at the top of a small grassy hill overlooking the main gates.I rode up next to him, wrapping my thick wool cloak tighter around my shoulders against the chill. Behind us, five thousand norther
Reborn as Betrayed Luna 114. Together
Livia’s POVThe sky above the Stonebridge Gorge had turned the bruised purple of an old wound.Cold wind whipped down the ridge, carrying the scent of pine needle sap and the faint, bitter metallic tang of the silver-bane buried below. Five thousand northern warriors stood behind us in absolute, motionless silence. Not a sword clinked; not a horse stamped its hoof. They were waiting for a single word."Torin," I said, my voice barely carrying above the howl of the wind, though every archer in the front rank leaned in to hear it. "Set the pitch pots."Twenty Warden shadow knights stepped forward from the flank. Each carried heavy iron pots filled with thick black tree pitch mixed with crushed dried night-shade root. They slung the pots onto the leather cradles of three heavy wooden ballistas positioned on the high ridge overlooking the gorge mouth."If we shoot straight into the path," Torin noted, lowering his brass spyglass, "the blast wave will shoot straight out of the gorge like
Reborn as Betrayed Luna 113. Trap and War
Livia’s POVThe pine forest gave way to a desolate, wind-scoured ridge of grey slate and black gravel.Below us lay the mouth of the Stonebridge Gorge—a treacherous, three-mile tear in the earth where the King’s Highway narrowed to a mere twenty yards across, boxed in on both sides by vertical limestone cliffs rising eighty feet into the gray sky.Beside me, mounted on his black warhorse, Asher pulled his rein tight. Behind us stretched the line of five thousand wolf warriors and two hundred Warden shadow knights—a silent, lethal column of steel, leather, and black banners fluttering in the cold mountain gale."It’s too quiet," Asher growled, his golden eyes narrowing as he scanned the empty rock face above the gorge. "The Imperial Border Guard maintained a fortified toll station at the bridge. There isn't even a picket soldier on the watchpost.""They fled," Beta Torin said, riding up along our flank, his longbow resting across his saddle bow. "Our forward riders haven't seen a singl
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