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Chapter 19 — Midnight Visitors

Author: Cataract
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-28 04:20:06

SIERRA'S POV

Moonlight dripped through the high windows of the Moonbane guest quarters, turning the marble floors into rivers of pale light. The summit had ended late, another exhausting night of forced smiles and veiled threats. I sat by the window, unable to sleep.

Isaak hadn’t recognized me, not yet. The mask, the scent veil and the years had done their work, but his eyes… gods, those eyes had lingered too long on me. I could still feel the ghost of his touch from the dance before Bethelina had sliced between us like a blade.

A sound broke my thoughts, a faint giggle. Then another.

I was on my feet in an instant, skirts whispering across the stone as I crossed the room. The door to the adjoining chamber, the one I’d sworn they’d been asleep in, was ajar. A cold gust of night air blew through.

“Nyx,” I hissed under my breath. “Zephyr.”

Silence. Then a muffled laugh echoed down the hall.

“Oh, moon curse me.” I muttered as I out on my mask to follow the sound.

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