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CHAPTER 136: What the Lock Was Holding

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The sound beneath the northern wing stopped, but nobody in the common room relaxed.

Seraphina kept her hand on the child's shoulder. The little figure had buried its face against her coat, fingers twisted into the fabric as though letting go would leave it alone with whatever waited below. The silver ring rested against Seraphina's wrist. Its three cuts had turned so dark that they were almost invisible.

Kael moved toward the eastern corridor, where Rowan and two guards stood watch over the loc
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  • THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE    CHAPTER 138: The Chamber Beside the Well

    The single knock did not come again.Seraphina stood at the eastern stairwell, watching Rowan examine the locked door. Behind her, the outpost continued its morning routine, but the sounds seemed distant. Her attention remained fixed on the foundations beneath their feet and the water that had stopped moving in the old well.Nobody had touched it.Kael joined her with the old drawing tucked beneath his arm. “We measure the accessible rooms, compare them with the original plan, and document anything that doesn't match. We don't open the sealed section.”“And if something opens it for us?” Seraphina asked.“Then we withdraw and reassess.”She studied him for a moment before nodding. Their agreement was simple, but she had learned how easily a simple plan could become another person's excuse to make decisions on her behalf.“The guards stay upstairs,” she said. “Only Rowan, Aurelith, you, the warrior, and I go down. If we hear a voice, nobody answers it. If the water moves, nobody approa

  • THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE    CHAPTER 137: The Key in His Hand

    By dawn, the crowned warrior had not slept.He sat alone in the outpost's map room, his right hand resting on the table. Every few minutes, he closed his fingers into a fist, trying to recover the shape of the key he remembered holding. He could recall its warmth, the pressure against his palm, and a woman's warning, but the face behind the voice remained beyond his reach.Outside, the northern wind rattled the shutters.A knock sounded at the map-room door.He reached for his sword before recognizing Seraphina's voice."It's me.""Come in."She entered carrying two cups of hot water. The kitchen had run short of tea leaves, so she had settled for something warm. She placed one cup before him and took the chair opposite."You haven't slept.""Neither have you.""I wasn't the one gripping an invisible key all night."His gaze shifted to his hand."Did the child tell you anything else?""No. It fell asleep after the guards changed shifts. Dusk-born is staying with it."He nodded, then l

  • THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE    CHAPTER 136: What the Lock Was Holding

    The sound beneath the northern wing stopped, but nobody in the common room relaxed.Seraphina kept her hand on the child's shoulder. The little figure had buried its face against her coat, fingers twisted into the fabric as though letting go would leave it alone with whatever waited below. The silver ring rested against Seraphina's wrist. Its three cuts had turned so dark that they were almost invisible.Kael moved toward the eastern corridor, where Rowan and two guards stood watch over the locked stairwell."Don't touch the lock," Seraphina called.He stopped and looked back at her. "I'm checking the frame, not opening it.""Then check it from a distance."Kael nodded. He took a lantern from a guard and examined the entrance without crossing the threshold. The old wooden door remained shut. Its iron hinges were rusted, and a strip of dust lay undisturbed beneath it."No signs of forced entry," he reported. "Whatever moved down there didn't come through this door.""That doesn't tell

  • THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE    CHAPTER 135: Three Knocks Beneath the Floor

    The third knock left the common room trembling.Nobody spoke. The guard stood frozen in the doorway, his attention fixed on the floorboards beneath his boots. The child had drawn its knees against its chest, clutching the silver ring while the blanket slipped from one shoulder.Seraphina rose slowly."Nobody moves until we know where that came from."Commander Rowan signaled to the guards. Two took positions at the common-room entrance, while another watched the corridor leading to the lower stairwell. Kael remained beside the table, staring at the floor.The crowned warrior drew his sword."Put it away," Seraphina said.His gaze shifted toward her. "Something is beneath us.""And drawing your sword won't tell us what it is.""If it comes through that floor—""Then we deal with it when it does. Until then, nobody goes downstairs alone."He lowered the blade but kept it in his hand.Aurelith knelt beside a narrow gap between two floorboards, where the old stone foundation showed beneat

  • THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE    CHAPTER 134: The Name She Never Gave

    The third bell was still fading beneath the mountains when Seraphina stared at the child."What did you say?"The child backed away from the window, clutching the silver ring so tightly that its knuckles whitened. Outside, snow swept across the courtyard. No figure stood beyond the glass, and the guards stationed near the gate were barely visible through the falling flakes."The voice said you gave me my name," the child whispered. "It said you told Mother what to call me.""I have never met you before the temple.""I know."The answer came too quickly. Seraphina searched the child's face, but it looked as confused as she felt."Then why would it say that?""I don't know." The child pressed its hands against its ears. "It keeps telling me things I cannot remember."Dusk-born moved between the child and the window. Elara drew closer to Cael, who leaned against the table to keep his injured ankle from taking his weight. The guards had begun whispering among themselves, and Commander Row

  • THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE    CHAPTER 133: The Stranger at the Gate

    Kael reached the door first."Nobody enters this room until we know who is outside," he told the guard. "And nobody leaves without my permission."The guard bowed and hurried away.Seraphina returned the Sword of Dawn to its sheath, though she kept one hand near the hilt. The three knocks had stopped, but she could still feel the vibration beneath her boots. She remembered the hidden chamber at the temple and the crowned warrior's troubled expression when the knocks had sounded there. Yet she had no proof that the two incidents were connected.Aurelith remained beside the table, studying the northern map."Do you recognize those knocks?" Seraphina asked."They resemble a detail in an incomplete account of the first seals," Aurelith replied. "The record mentions three sounds beneath a sealed city. It doesn't identify their source, and it doesn't establish whether they came from within the city or somewhere beyond it.""Then we treat them as a warning until we know more."Kael looked at

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