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Chapter 225 The Dream
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2026-05-09 14:09:25The dreams had come every night since—not nightmares, but something quieter and heavier. The two of us sitting across a table or standing in an empty field, talking about choices, about what you become when you make the same choice enough times, and about whether you can ever simply let go.
The night the dreams ended, I dreamed about Alaric instead.He stood in a place that wasn’t quite a room and wasn’t quite open air. Light came from everywhere and nowhere at onc
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The clearing was perfectly circular. Light filled it without source or shadow, thick and slow, brushing against my skin like warm water.I stepped forward. The ground gave slightly under my boots, pale and yielding. My breath caught in my throat as the light moved, deliberate, responsive, curling around my ankles and rising along my calves. It knew I was here.Alaric sat in the center, cross-legged, his back to us. So achingly small. The narrow shoulders of a seven-year-old who still had growing left to do. My chest tightened until it hurt.Kael stayed close beside me. I felt his tension through the space between us, but I kept walking. Each step sent ripples through the light.Alaric turned.His eyes were silver, pure, glowing silver with no pupil, no iris, only living light. For one heartbeat I stared into something ancient and indifferent, something that had never been afraid of the dark or asked for another story before bed. My knees nearly buc
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We walked deeper.The trees inside the boundary were different. Not deformed ... Not the twisted, tortured shapes I had half-expected ... but still. With a stillness that the outside world’s trees did not have, a quality of having not moved in a very long time.The light filtered through them in thin vertical lines that did not quite behave the way light should, arriving at angles that did not match the sun’s position.“Cassius should be responsive to our presence by now,” Aldric said.He was moving differently inside the boundary, more carefully, like someone navigating a space with landmarks only they could see. “He was informed of our arrival.”“And if he is not...”“Then we wait.”We did not have to wait.Cassius came out of the shadow between two leaning trees, and I registered before I had processed anything else that he was bigger than I remembered from descript
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We left at dawn.Three people, two horses, and Aldric, who traveled in a way I had stopped trying to categorize and simply accepted as characteristic of him.Kael and I had said the necessary things to the necessary people the night before.Theron had command of the military. Helena had the medical situation and the civilian population.Martin had the day-to-day logistics in his one remaining hand, which—as Kael had observed quietly to me the night before—was more competent than most people with two.Giga’s unit was maintaining the northern perimeter.The agreement with Darius was holding, for whatever that was worth.The kingdom would function without me.I had spent months being terrified of that sentence and had arrived, somewhere in the past weeks, at the recognition that the terror had been, in part, its kind of pride. The belief that my presence was the only thing keeping everything held together. When,
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I looked at Kael and nodded. Just then Erica ran into the room. Worry marked her face. “Mom, my Sight saw it. Many injured. A kid is trapped under a beam. You need to come now.”Her voice caught in her throat.I pulled her into a hug. I knew her Sight brought pain when it showed lives slipping away. Kael glanced at me, then at Erica. “I will coordinate the rescue. Do not worry.”Not long after Kael left, Helena arrived at our door. “Luna, a barracks is about to collapse. People remain inside. The snow weighs too heavy. Can you come with me and use your Moonbane power to hold it steady? We must get everyone out.”I looked at Alaric, still asleep in his crib. “I will return soon,” I told Erica. “Watch your brother.”Erica nodded with force.The east wall had become a wreck. An entire section had given way. Snow continued to fall. Dust filled the air and made breathing difficult. Warri
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“What if we don’t have a reason until we’re standing right in front of him?” I asked.“Then we'll deal with whatever we find when we get there.” Kael took my hand. “Sophia, we’ve been handling impossible things for six months straight. We’re still here. Alaric is still here. That counts for something.”I looked down at his hand holding mine.“You’re very steady these days,” I said.“One of us has to be.”“You weren’t always like this. Before all of this.”“Before all of this, I didn’t have to be.” He stayed quiet for a moment. “Necessity teaches its kind of control.”I leaned against him, just enough to feel the contact. Not falling apart, just staying connected.When the entire world keeps pushing you inside your head, sometimes the smallest touch is the only thing that keeps you from disappearing there.
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Cassius noted, in what he called a secondary observation, that Alaric sometimes spoke to someone he couldn’t perceive. He thought it was just the Realm affecting a child’s mind. Kids in isolating magical places sometimes create what he called “resonant ”presences”—companions that may or may not be real.Aldric exhaled slowly.“He was mistaken. It was real.”“He didn’t know?”“Cassius may not have been able to see Vael. If Vael was working with the realm's own frequencies instead of fighting them…” Aldric paused. “I’m speculating. What I know is that Vael has been in contact with Alaric. And Alaric has probably been told a story about what he is and what his transformation means. I don’t know what that story says.”“Then I need to talk to Cassius,&r
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