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Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna 85
Rael- I went to her room because the question of whether someone was running Gerard was in the study with me, and it was a large, heavy question. I had examined it from every available angle, and I did not yet have enough pieces to answer it. Looking at a question you cannot yet answer is a particular kind of frustration—one I had learned three centuries ago to distinguish from looking at a problem that simply required more work. This was the former. I could not solve it tonight. I needed more information, specifically the intelligence Imogen’s contact would bring regarding Delia’s location, and that would not arrive until morning at the earliest. I went to Thalia's quarters because it was the right place to be with an unanswerable question. Not because she had the answer—she possessed no more information than I did—but because being in the same space with her settled the specific quality of frustrated uncertainty into a completely different register. I knocked once. She opened th
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I felt the shift in the pack before I saw it. It was a subtle, microscopic change in the air, the kind of quiet atmospheric pressure I had spent my entire life learning to read from inside restricted spaces. It wasn't direct. People didn't point, and they didn't whisper loud enough for the echo to carry down the stone corridors, but the quality of their movement was different. During the initial recognition period, people had looked at me with an open, cautious curiosity—a collective, breathless waiting to see what the Alpha King’s chosen mate would do. This morning, that open curiosity was gone. It had been replaced by a measuring, guarded quality. They looked at me the way people looked at an object they had been instructed to re-examine, searching for the hidden crack or the dark flaw they had been assured was there. I tracked it from the high window of the archive room. I watched the guards at the perimeter gate lingering a second too long when my name was mentioned in the rota
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RAEL I entered the formal acknowledgment of the Omega curse first thing in the morning, before the fortress had fully awakened. I had told Thalia it would be done today, and when I gave my word to my mate, it was absolute. I signed the heavy parchment at my desk, watching the black ink sink deep into the fibers. Mira signed as the secondary signatory, her hand steady, and the eldest elder signed as tertiary. By eight in the morning, the document was officially entered on the pack record. Before the compound had even finished breakfast, Imogen’s contact was already moving toward Delia’s location. I handed the finalized document to Talos, his expression grim and attentive. "Make sure Imogen receives a copy personally," I ordered. "Today. Before noon." "Yes, my King," Talos said, bowing before turning swiftly on his heel. From there, I went straight to the morning’s routine administrative council session. Gerard was actively mobilizing an external coalition to tear down Thalia’s le
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Thalia-The quiet of the archive room at eleven in the evening was a heavy, physical thing.The crisis planning had ended over an hour ago. Valerie had finally retired to the guest quarter Constance had assigned her, her sharp, defensive humor lingering in the hallway long after her footsteps had faded down the stone corridor. Heloise had cleared away the heavy ledgers from the center of the room, leaving only a single bronze lamp burning low on the polished oak surface of her working table. The rest of the vast room fell into long, soft shadows, the smell of old paper, dried ink, and cold slate hanging rich and warm in the air.I sat across from Rael at the low table, the subtle glow of the flame painting the hard angles of his jaw in warm shades of amber.The silence between us was not just tense this time around, it was the quiet of two people who had spent hours navigating a battlefield of legalities, pack politics, and impending threats, now left only with each other. But beneat
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Rael- I stopped, looking down at her. "Yes?" "I did not take his offer," she said. There was no anger in her voice, no desperate plea for trust, just a simple statement of fact. "I want that made clear." "I know you didn't," I told her honestly. "I know where your loyalty lies, Elodie." "Good," she replied softly. "But you should know that Gerard genuinely believed I might consider it. He built his entire secondary timeline under the assumption that an old, blind archivist could be bought with rare books and institutional recognition." I looked at her, a faint, dark smile tugging at the corner of my mouth. "You were his most credible potential witness. If the chief archivist swore Thalia was a danger, the pack would have panicked by midnight." "Yes," Elodie said, her own lips twitching with the ghost of a smile. "And I intend to use that assumption against him." "How?" "He thinks I am standing on the fence, weighing my options," she said, standing up with incredible
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Rael- There is a specific, soul-crushing art to legal drafting that three hundred years of pack leadership forces you to master, whether you want to or not. It requires you to sit in a cold room, ignore the urge to solve your problems with raw kinetic force, and instead weaponize commas, archaic syntax, and foundational precedents until your enemy’s political assault dies under the weight of its own administrative failure. I filed the response to the petition at six in the evening. I took it down to the central council registry myself, flanked by Mira—who looked like she had personally invented procedural compliance—and the eldest elder, a man who smelled faintly of dried sage and three centuries of institutional fatigue. Having the three of us co-sign the document was the legal equivalent of parking a siege engine on the clerk’s desk. It was the strongest possible configuration under Great North law: the Alpha King, the senior neutral elder, and the most ancient living member
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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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RAEL’S POV“Witchcraft?” She stuttered, her face going pale instantly, before she started coughing and awkwardly swallowing her saliva.“Pardon?”I stepped back, the movement sharp and predatory. I refused to meet her gaze again; those gold eyes were too bright, too haunting for a killer. Don’t get
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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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