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Chapter 75: The Crossing
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2026-11-02 08:42:33RONAN
We heard the dog before we saw any of them.It was the morning of the sixth day, and we'd come down off the last of the moor to the old crossing below the Scar, where the river runs wide and shallow over stones the colour of slate. I was standing in the shallows in my own shape with the water round my shins, looking south across the river at an empty road.No convoy. No lanterns. No carts.Then, from somewhere beyond the trees on the far bank, a dog s
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Rejected Under the Blood Moon: The Alpha's Regret Chapter 75: The Crossing
RONANWe heard the dog before we saw any of them.It was the morning of the sixth day, and we'd come down off the last of the moor to the old crossing below the Scar, where the river runs wide and shallow over stones the colour of slate. I was standing in the shallows in my own shape with the water round my shins, looking south across the river at an empty road.No convoy. No lanterns. No carts.Then, from somewhere beyond the trees on the far bank, a dog started barking. A deep, delighted, idiotic bark. The bark of a dog who'd seen something wonderful.And a cart came round the bend in the road.Behind it rode twenty of Dunstan's wolves, in Greymarch grey. In front of it, driving, with the reins wrapped round her fists and her hair coming down, sat Cassia.And beside her on the bench, with her left arm bound against her chest in a sling made from somebody's shirt, sat my cousin.***I don't remember cr
Rejected Under the Blood Moon: The Alpha's Regret Chapter 74: Where to Stop
SERAPHINA They were coming, and some of them weren't going to make it. That was the first thing I understood, sitting on the cold shingle at dawn with Liv asleep at last under three blankets and Kael's coat, and my eyes still black from looking. All across the North, the embers were moving. Slowly. Steadily. The way sheep move when the dog's behind them. Out of farmhouses and shepherds' huts and charcoal-burners' camps, out of villages I didn't know the names of, girls were getting up in the night and walking. Barefoot, half of them. In their nightdresses. Across the moor in the dead of winter, towards a lake none of them had ever seen. Towards me. "Some of them are a week away," I said. "More. Up past the Teeth. Over the high passes." I pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes. "They'll freeze. They'll walk into rivers. They won't even wake up to know it's happening." "And the ones who make it," said Kael quietly, "walk straight into Hallvard's arms." I looked at t
Rejected Under the Blood Moon: The Alpha's Regret Chapter 73: The Yellow Dog
CASSIA Lowmere was empty. We came down into it a little after dark, thirty riders and two carts, and the whole village stood open to the wind. Doors swinging. Chimneys cold. A pail tipped over by the well, as if somebody had dropped it running. At the end of the lane, the house with the blue door had its shutters closed and its garden gate tied shut with a bit of red ribbon, the way you'd tie it if you meant to come back. Varga sat his horse in the middle of the lane and looked at the blue door for a long time. "She warned them," he said at last. He didn't sound angry. He sounded almost pleased, the way you'd sound if an opponent made a good move at draughts. "The Ashby girl. Clever thing." He turned his horse. "There's only one set of walls for twenty miles. Dunstan's. We'll be there before dawn." Beside me in the cart, Sigrun opened her eyes. "He's going to besiege the Greymarch," she said, very low. "With thirty men." "Can he?" "No," said Sigrun. "But he doesn't nee
Rejected Under the Blood Moon: The Alpha's Regret Chapter 72: Not My Hill
KAELI didn't turn round.I'd like that remembered, if anything about me is. I stood on the shingle at Skarra with my back to the slope and the lake lapping at my boots, and I heard her go up the hill to him, and I heard them talk, low, the words lost in the wind. Then I heard nothing at all for the space of a breath.I knew what that silence was. I didn't need to see it.I didn't turn round.The bond under my ribs didn't tear. I'd half thought it might. It didn't even pull. It just ached, the way an old break aches in cold weather, steady and deep and not going anywhere. I stood there and let it, and kept my hands open at my sides, and watched the lake."You love her," said Liv.She was sitting on a rock a little way along the shore, with her blanket round her shoulders and her knees drawn up. I'd forgotten she was there."Yes," I said."Then why didn't you go up the hill?""Because it wasn't my hill," I said. "Not this morning."She looked at me for a long moment with her red, tired
Rejected Under the Blood Moon: The Alpha's Regret Chapter 71: The Shoulder
RONANSigrun was nine years old the first time she beat me with a sword.It was a wooden one. I was twelve and twice her size, and I'd been showing off in the yard at Skarholt in front of the guard, and she walked out of the stables with a practice sword her father had cut down for her and put me on my back in the dirt in three moves. Then she stood over me and said, "You drop your shoulder before you swing. Everyone can see it." And walked off.I stopped dropping my shoulder after that. I never told her she'd taught me.That was what I thought about, at dawn, on the shingle at Skarra, while Seraphina told me that my cousin was lying in the back of a cart somewhere in the south with a crossbow bolt in her, and a lantern hanging over Sorcha's face.The only family I had left who wasn't a liar.***"Varga," said Kael.We were sitting in a circle on the stones, the three of us and Ilse, with Erling standing behind us and Liv watching from under her blanket a little way off. Kael had a st
Rejected Under the Blood Moon: The Alpha's Regret Chapter 70: Yarrow
CASSIAThe second time in my life I woke up tied in the back of a cart, I was a great deal less polite about it.I bit the man who checked my ropes. Not hard. Just enough to make the point. He swore and cuffed me across the ear, and I lay back against the sacks with my ear ringing and thought, well, Cassia, that's three Watch men you've bitten now, and not once has it helped.It was grey dawn. We were moving. I could hear hooves all round us, a great many of them, and the creak of harness, and the jolt of wheels on a rough road. And there was light. That was the worst of it. Hard yellow light, coming from just above my head.I turned my head.They'd driven a pole into the bed of the cart, between the sacks, and hung a lantern from it. A little iron cage with a candle in it that didn't flicker. It hung right over Sorcha.She was lying on her back in the straw with her eyes half open, and her face was the colour of ashes. Her lips were moving, very slightly, as if she were trying to tal
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