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CHAPTER 116: The Child Beneath the Skin
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2026-10-12 13:46:41
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THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 117: What the Door Remembered
The sound of a lock turning came from beneath their feet.Seraphina felt the vibration through the soles of her boots. It traveled up her legs and settled in her teeth, followed by a grinding noise that seemed to come from somewhere deep beneath the buried kingdom. Dust sifted from the ceiling. Beyond the broken archway, stone scraped against stone as an ancient mechanism stirred after centuries of stillness.Cael clutched Elara's hand.“Mother, what was that?”Seraphina watched the abyss. The faceless creature had stopped moving, its long fingers curled over the broken edge. Beneath it, the small hand had disappeared into the darkness, but red light still seeped through the cracks in the stone. The glow spread in thin veins across the floor, branching toward the walls.Aurelith caught Seraphina's arm. “Get the children away from the edge.”“I need to know what we've opened.”“You can find out somewhere that isn't collapsing.”Another crack split the floor between them. Seraphina stum
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 116: The Child Beneath the Skin
Cael stared at the small hand reaching out of the abyss.The crown-shaped mark on its wrist looked almost identical to the one beneath his left eye, except that its lines were broken, as though someone had tried to erase them and stopped halfway through. Its fingers opened and closed in the crimson light. They trembled in a way Seraphina recognized from Cael's first days after his awakening, when he had tried to hide his fear behind a stubborn show of courage.She stepped in front of him.“Don't touch it.”The hand paused.Below it, the faceless creature clung to the edge, its new fingers digging into the ancient stone. It had stopped climbing, but its body remained taut, as if an invisible rope held it in place. The crimson line between Elara and Cael pulsed once. The creature's shoulders jerked in response.Then the child spoke.“Cael?”His name came from below in a thin, uncertain voice. Not the imitation that had called him Brother. This time, there was a question in it, and somet
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 115: The Hand That Held Him
Seraphina saw the creature’s fingers before the rest of it emerged. They curled over the broken edge of the abyss, pale and unnaturally long, gripping the stone while something below hauled itself upward. Crimson light from Dawn and Dusk revealed a body that seemed poorly suited to the shape of the opening, its limbs stretching at awkward angles as the ancient masonry groaned beneath its weight.Cael hung above the darkness, one ankle trapped in its hand.“Cael!”Seraphina lunged forward, but the crowned warrior caught her around the waist before she could slide over the edge. Elara’s wrist was already slipping through her fingers, and the girl had both feet planted against a fractured slab, desperately trying to keep her brother from falling. Grit scraped Seraphina’s palms as she tightened her hold. Beneath her knees, the stone crumbled, sending fragments rattling into the depths.“Pull them back!” the crowned warrior shouted.“I can’t while he’s down there!”He changed his grip, bra
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 114: The Child Beneath the Door
“Mother?”The child's voice rose from beneath the kingdom, faint but clear enough to carry through the shattered chamber. Seraphina held Cael against her side, feeling his fingers bunch the fabric of her sleeve, while Elara stood close to her other shoulder. Crimson light from the crossed swords washed over their faces, then faded as the blades trembled in front of the woman waiting beyond the broken archway.The woman wearing Seraphina's face had stopped smiling.“Why did you leave me?” the child asked.Cael pressed closer to Seraphina. “Who is that?”She had no answer. The voice sounded too young to belong to the presence that had spoken from the abyss, but its grief was unmistakable. Seraphina knew the sound of a child calling for someone who had promised to return. She had heard it in nightmares, and she had heard it in her own children's voices when fear made them forget how brave they were supposed to be.Across the chamber, the woman retreated a step. “No.”The word barely carr
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 113: The Voice That knows Their Name
“Now,” the voice said, “we can begin.”Dawn jerked in Seraphina's hand.She caught the hilt with both hands as the blade dragged her toward the abyss, its edge scraping across the stone. Across the chamber, Dusk-born struggled to keep the Sword of Dusk pointed away from the opening. The weapons had never pulled against their bearers with such force.“Get the children behind the archway!” Seraphina shouted.The crowned warrior seized Cael's arm and drew him toward the exit. Elara followed, but after three steps, she stopped.“Mother?”Seraphina couldn't answer. Dawn was dragging her forward, and each time she resisted, the heat beneath her palms grew worse. The sword no longer answered to her strength. Something below had taken hold of it.“Keep moving!” Aurelith ordered.Elara looked back toward her mother. Her fingers closed around Cael's hand, but she wouldn't follow when he tried to pull her away.“It's calling us.”The silver light beneath the stone shifted toward her.“Yes, littl
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 112: The Thing It Fears
The movement beneath the kingdom stopped.Seraphina stood several paces from the broken edge of the abyss, Dawn in her right hand and Elara pressed against her left side. Cael stood just behind them, close enough for Seraphina to catch his sleeve if he tried to move. Across the chamber, the blank-faced creature had backed against the far wall, well beyond the broken archway through which the others would have to retreat. One hand rested against the stone behind it. Its head remained turned toward the darkness.Seraphina had watched the creature endure attacks without flinching. It had worn familiar faces, spoken with borrowed voices, and treated the terror of everyone around it as an inconvenience. Now it seemed to need the wall to keep itself standing.“What is that thing?” the crowned warrior demanded.The creature ignored him.He shifted his grip on his weapon. “I'm speaking to you.”The creature turned its head a fraction.“Be quiet.”The crowned warrior fell silent.Seraphina dre
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