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Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna 74
THALIAHe comes to my room at ten o'clock and finds me already packed.The sight of me sitting beside a single leather satchel stops him just inside the doorway—triggering that particular, absolute stillness he gets whenever a quiet suspicion he’s been harboring gets confirmed directly in front of his eyes.I only have one small bag. Over these tumultuous weeks, I have learned that I travel best when I travel light; the plain grey wool dress I wear and whatever iron willpower lives beneath it are the only things that truly matter. Everything else—courtly finery, extra cloaks, extra boots—is just situational weight designed to slow a person down.I am sitting on the edge of the mattress with my mother’s thick, leather-bound journal resting open in my lap. Beside me, on the small bedside table, sits my old contacts case. It is empty now, kept not as a functional tool, but in the exact way a survivor keeps an artifact from a past life. The gold-tinted lenses that had obscured my true eye
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THALIAShe starts mapping the exit possibilities at five in the morning while Rael is still trapped in the study, working through the grim figures of Talos's new coalition report. She does it at five because the sky is still the pale, bruised purple of the early northern dawn, because the fortress is silent, and because she has already decided she is not going to tell him she is doing it. She is going to do it anyway, and she is practical enough to start while there is still some safe, psychological distance between those two facts.She is not afraid. She gave up on the simple, visceral version of fear the day she stood on the public ceremony ground and let heavy stones land against her ribs and face without moving an inch or crying out. What she is instead is clear-eyed, and being clear-eyed in this cold mountain fortress means facing brutally plain math: three new packs joining the external coalition brings the total to five. Five packs means roughly twelve hundred warriors standin
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THALIAShe reads the contingency archive section herself the moment Rael brings it to her, sitting at the table with Heloise on one side of her and Rael on the other and the afternoon sliding by unnoticed outside the window.Her mother's handwriting is everywhere across it. That careful, deliberate scholar's script she has learned to recognise across three days of reading, every letter formed the way a person forms letters when they expect someone, someday, to need to trust every word of it completely.The section is dense. Her mother had never written a contingency plan casually in her life, she wrote them the way she wrote everything, thoroughly, with sourced evidence attached to every claim she made. The external review mechanism and its full history. The three specific scenarios under which a restored legal standing could be challenged from outside. And then, near the very end, the paragraph that makes Thalia stop reading entirely, that makes her set her hand flat against the page
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RAELThe report was waiting on his desk at seven in the morning, which told him everything before he had even read a line of it. Talos never left paper on that desk overnight unless the contents needed to be seen the moment Rael's eyes opened, and that meant the contact had been made the previous evening and Talos had simply been standing in the corridor outside, waiting for the sound of movement in the room before he would allow himself to sleep.Rael read it standing up. He always read the important ones standing up, the way his body seemed to understand before his mind fully caught up that sitting down was a luxury reserved for information that could wait.Iron Ridge.The largest pack in the eastern territories, three hundred wolves strong, historically neutral in every internal dispute the Great North had ever weathered. Their Alpha was a woman named Breca who had been running that pack for forty years, and the thing everyone said about Breca, the thing that had followed her name
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The practice courtyard was Elodie’s idea, and I had agreed to it because the waking was real, ongoing, and unmanaged. And unmanaged things, I was learning, had a nasty tendency to manage you instead.Elodie had chosen the inner practice courtyard—a small, enclosed space away from the pack's main thoroughfares, with high stone walls on all four sides and the sacred flame basin relocated to the center for our session. Nara was there with a notebook, which was Nara’s default equipment for any event she attended, her pen already poised to document my potential catastrophe. Constance was there too, though nobody had specifically invited her. She had brought a fire bucket and a damp cloth and set them just inside the courtyard door with the practical, dry expression of a woman who had decided that preparedness was a significantly more useful virtue than optimism.I stood at the edge of the circle Elodie had marked on the ground, the stone beneath my boots humming with a faint, rhythmic puls
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Afterward, I sat up with my back against the headboard and he lay with his arm across my lap. The morning light was fully in the room and neither of us was in any particular hurry.I read one of the archive pages Heloise had given me the previous evening, holding it in both hands, while he looked at the ceiling with the distant quality of a man running through something in his head. The room was quiet, save for the crackle of the embers in the hearth. The archive page felt heavy in my hands, a tangible piece of the history I was currently dismantling."She documented the swearing ground," I said, without looking up."The mountains?" he asked, his voice low."Yes. She mapped the route. She had sketches of the stones." I turned the page. "She had been there."He sat up slightly, his attention narrowing. "Your mother went to the swearing ground.""Eleven years before I was born," I said. "She went alone. She describes what she felt when she got there." I was quiet for a moment, letting t
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THALIA’S POVIt had taken a whole night before the realization dawned fully on me—I had murdered two people and fled the scene. The blood on my hands had been washed away, but the phantom weight of it remained, pressing into my skin like lead. And what I had hoped on settling before dawn with my au
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THALIA’S POVThey say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but in the Great North, if you don’t judge a wolf by its eyes, you’re already a corpse. I suppose the werewolf hierarchy is a real eye-opener, though for someone like me, the view is usually from the bottom of a shallow grave.This was
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Thalia's POVLater that evening...The steam from the bathwater curled around my skin like a thick, heavy blanket, and I kept my eyes closed for a long time, drifting in the quiet heat while I tried to force my heart to slow down, because the silence of the tower was the only peace I had known sinc
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THALIA’S POVMy heart squeezed painfully in my chest, and I felt like a bird trapped in a cage made of my own ribs as I stuttered, “I… you, sir—”His gaze didn’t falter for a single second. He stood there looking like a god of war, tall and terrifying, while he growled, “I won’t repeat myself anymor
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