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To the Gate of Ashes
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THE HEIR AND THE HOLLOW VOW The Gate of Ashes
Chapter 56 – The Gate of AshesThe world split open in fire.Seraphine stumbled forward as the current of the last gate spat them out into a realm of blistering heat and searing light. Her lungs heaved, each breath dragging smoke instead of water. The air itself seemed alive, trembling with flame. Above, the sky was no sky at all but a dome of roiling ash, streaked through with rivers of fire that cascaded like molten veins.The Gate of Ashes.It was alive in its hunger—its walls breathing fire, its floor blackened stone that cracked with every step as though it remembered countless feet burning upon it. Her boots scorched immediately, the soles hissing. Pain shot up her legs before she forced herself to steady, clinging to Riven’s hand as if letting go would mean falling into the inferno itself.He stood beside her, shoulders heaving, his clothes already singed, hair whipped by a wind of sparks. His eyes narrowed against the blaze, silver and sharp even in this realm of red.“Stay cl
THE HEIR AND THE HOLLOW VOW To the Gate of Ashes
Chapter 55 – To the Gate of AshesThe abyss burned.It should have been water still, cold and suffocating, yet now it seared like molten iron, each current cutting across Seraphine’s skin as though the Tribunal had turned the very sea against her. Her lungs convulsed, every breath ragged, every heartbeat frantic.The storm of whispers had exploded into full voices, unrelenting, impossible to shut out. You are already ours. You carry our stain. Every step you take is another chain tightening around your throat.She pressed her palms to her ears, but the sound wasn’t in the water anymore—it was inside her, threaded into bone and blood. She almost lost her sense of direction, her mind thrashing like her body, but then Riven’s grip seized her wrist, hard and grounding.“Don’t—” His voice was hoarse, breaking, but it cut through the din like steel. “Don’t give them more than they already take. Look at me.”She did. Or rather—she tried. His face flickered through the haze, blurred by darkne
THE HEIR AND THE HOLLOW VOW The Tribunal Stirs
Chapter 54 – The Tribunal StirsThe water pulsed around them, no longer the steady current that had carried them from one trial to the next but a restless, shifting tide, as though the abyss itself could no longer remain still. Riven’s hand was locked around Seraphine’s, firm enough to bruise, and yet she clung back with equal force, neither of them willing to loosen even a fraction.The glow ahead sharpened, no longer faint or distant—it pulsed like a wound in the sea, an opening not carved by mortal hands but born from something older, deeper. The light was not light at all but a shifting radiance, too alive, too knowing.Seraphine’s chest tightened. This was not another gate.This was something watching.She turned to Riven. The silver sheen in his eyes was stark now, sharper than steel, but his jaw was set with that same unbending resolve that had steadied her through every trial. “It’s them,” she whispered, though the water carried her words strangely, as if they bled out in all
THE HEIR AND THE HOLLOW VOW The Tribunal’s veil
Chapter 53 – The Tribunal’s VeilThe glow on the horizon pulsed faster now, every beat a tremor through the water. It was not light in any true sense—it was awareness, a gathering of intent that licked across Seraphine’s skin like fire hidden beneath ice. Each thrum carried whispers that thickened the water around them, making it harder to breathe, harder to think.Riven’s grip on her hand never loosened. His thumb pressed steady patterns against her palm as though carving anchors into her bones. But even he couldn’t hide the strain in his jaw, the taut line of muscle down his throat.“They’re here,” Seraphine whispered, though the words were barely thought.“Yes,” Riven’s answer brushed into her mind, sharp and low. “But remember—they want you to see them. They feed on fear.”Her pulse leapt. “And if I can’t stop fearing them?”“Then you hold to me,” he said. “Until you can.”The water fractured.The horizon split into shards of silver light, and from the edges spilled forms that wer
THE HEIR AND THE HOLLOW VOW SHADOWS OF THE THIRD GATE
Chapter 52 – Shadows of the Third GateThe laughter faded into a hum that shivered through the current, pressing against Seraphine’s skin like the touch of invisible hands. The third gate dissolved behind them, leaving the water darker than before, as though each trial consumed what little light remained.Riven’s hand never left hers. He swam with calm, deliberate strokes, but she could feel the steel in his body, every muscle coiled for the storm he knew was coming.Ahead, the abyss no longer glowed. Instead, it stretched vast and empty, a gulf of stillness that unsettled her more than the whispers. The silence was deceptive, fragile—like glass that would shatter under the lightest touch.And the voices were patient now.One gate remains before the threshold, they murmured, as though savoring the words. One step before your chains are revealed. Do you hunger for it, child of ruin? Or do you fear the truth your flame will bring?Seraphine clenched her teeth, pressing the heel of her h
THE HEIR AND THE HOLLOW VOW The Veil of Whispers
Chapter 51 – The Veil of WhispersThe glow on the horizon pulsed again, faint yet inexorable, like a heart beating in the depths of the abyss. Seraphine’s body tensed with every flicker, as though each throb of light reached into her chest and stole her rhythm for its own.Riven’s arm remained firm around her waist, his presence a steady warmth in the cold dark. Yet even his touch could not drown the voices.They no longer drifted like distant echoes. Now they cut sharper—threads of sound winding directly into her thoughts, curling close to her own inner voice until she could no longer tell where she ended and they began.You swim toward nothing.Every gate draws you deeper into your chains.Even now, the one beside you does not see you for what you are.Her fingers spasmed against Riven’s hand. She bit back a gasp, fighting to steady herself, but the whispers pressed closer, more intimate, like cold lips brushing her ear.Riven’s grip tightened immediately. “Seraphine,” he said, low
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