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THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR FACE TO FACE
"Nobody moves," Kael said quietly, hand already on his blade. "Not until we understand what he actually wants.""He wants exactly what that gesture suggests," Veyra said, staring down at the figure waiting patiently at the base of the ridge. "A conversation. Malachai has never been the type to simply attack without theater first.""That's supposed to reassure us," Ashen said."It's supposed to inform you," Veyra said. "Whether it reassures you is your own business."Lira stared down at the man who had haunted the edges of every conversation about the northern threat for days now, finally made real and solid rather than simply a name attached to horror. "I should go down.""Absolutely not," Kael said, the words arriving so quickly they nearly overlapped her own."Kael, if he wanted us dead, those creatures at the border wouldn't have retreated. He wants to talk. I think we should let him.""Or it's a trap," Kael said. "An invitation into a fortified compound surrounded by forces we can
THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR INTO THE MOUNTAINS
The terrain shifted dramatically as they pushed further northeast, gentle hills giving way to rocky, ascending ground that made travel considerably slower than any of them had anticipated."How much farther," Lira asked, on their third day of climbing, her breath visible in the increasingly cold mountain air."According to my markers, perhaps half a day more," Veyra said, checking the position of the peaks around them against some internal calculation Lira couldn't quite follow. "The specific location I traced correspondence to sits within a valley just beyond that ridge.""You're certain," Kael asked, not for the first time."As certain as I can be without having stood there myself," Veyra said, an edge of frustration creeping into her voice. "I've answered this question four times already, Crown Prince.""Forgive me for wanting certainty before we potentially walk into an ambush," Kael said."There's no certainty in any of this," Veyra snapped. "There never has been. I'm doing the b
THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR VERIFICATION
"We need maps," Ashen said, the moment they'd relocated from the garden to Kael's study, the late hour apparently no obstacle to his sudden burst of focused energy. "Detailed ones. Everything the Academy archives have on the northeastern territory Veyra described.""At this hour," Dorian said, dropping into a chair with visible exhaustion. "Ashen, it's nearly two in the morning.""Malachai Rook doesn't appear to be sleeping either," Ashen said. "I'd rather not hand him a head start.""Fair point," Dorian admitted, though he didn't move from the chair.Kael was already pulling maps from a cabinet, spreading them across the table with practiced efficiency. "Here," he said, tapping a section of terrain marked only sparsely with settlement names. "This is the region Veyra indicated. Considerably remote. Mountainous, mostly unclaimed by any House directly.""Unclaimed is convenient," Rurik said, leaning over the map. "Nobody patrols territory nobody's bothered to claim.""Precisely why it
THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR THE NAME BEHIND THE SUMMONING
"Who," Lira said, the single word barely more than a breath.Veyra hesitated, and for the first time since Lira had met her, something that looked genuinely like fear crossed the older woman's composed features."Say it," Lira pressed. "Whatever you're afraid of, saying it out loud isn't going to make it worse than it already is.""You'd be surprised," Veyra said quietly. "His name is Malachai Rook. He is, or was, the last surviving heir of House Rook, another bloodline the Culling supposedly extinguished, alongside your mother's and my own.""Another survivor," Lira repeated. "Like you. Like me.""Not exactly like us," Veyra said. "House Rook's bloodline carried a different gift than the First Alpha's line. Where your blood commands loyalty and unity, House Rook's blood commanded something considerably darker. Domination through fear. Control through corruption of will.""And he's the one summoning the Hollow Ones.""I believe so," Veyra said. "I don't have absolute proof, not yet. B
THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR ALONE THIS TIME
"Absolutely not," Kael said, reading the letter a second time as though the words might rearrange themselves into something less alarming. "You are not meeting her alone. Not after everything Sorren told us.""I didn't say I would," Lira said. "I said I need to think about it.""There's nothing to think about.""Kael." She took the letter back gently. "She said this changes everything. After today, after watching those things retreat the moment they confirmed I was there, don't you want to know what she means by that?""Of course I do. That doesn't mean you walk into it unprotected.""She said alone.""She also orchestrated a conspiracy against your life as a personality test," Kael said. "Forgive me if her instructions don't carry much weight with me anymore."Lira sat down heavily, the exhaustion of the day finally catching up with her fully. "What if she's telling the truth this time? What if refusing costs us information we actually need?""Then we find another way to get that inf
THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR WHAT CONFIRMED MEANS
They waited nearly an hour before Rurik judged it safe enough to leave the shelter, the Hollow Ones' retreat apparently genuine rather than tactical, though nobody in the small group felt particularly reassured by that assessment."Confirmed I'm here," Dorian repeated, once they'd started the careful walk back toward the settlement. "Confirmed for who, exactly? These things don't strike me as the type to file a formal report afterward.""That's actually a fair question," Ashen said. "Assuming they're not simply acting on raw instinct, something coordinated their retreat the moment Lira's presence was confirmed. That implies communication. Direction. Something guiding them beyond simple predatory hunger.""You think someone's controlling them," Kael said."I think it's possible," Ashen said carefully. "I don't have proof yet. But creatures this coordinated, retreating this precisely the moment their objective was met, that's not typical animal behavior. That's strategy.""Wonderful," R
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