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CHAPTER 62

Author: DiamondE
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Whitemoon – Infirmary of the High Court

The smell of burning cloth clung to the infirmary walls. Not from any fire still burning — but from what had already been lost. Aether ash floated like spores through the cracked windows, settling over shattered vials, stained gauze, forgotten instruments.

Elise sat beside her mother’s cot, unmoving.

A single oil lamp cast a flickering shadow over the room, painting the sharp edges of her mother’s face in gold and bone. She looked smaller now. Not just sick. Hollowed. Her breaths were shallow, uneven — like each one was bartered from a debt she didn’t owe.

“I wanted to see you again,” her mother whispered.

Elise didn’t cry. Not yet. Her fingers tightened slightly around the frail, cold hand beneath hers.

“You did,” she said. “I’m here.”

Her mother’s lips trembled upward, just a bit. “You were always too soft.”

“I’m not soft anymore,” Elise murmured.

“You are,” her mother said, barely audible. “That’s why it worked.”

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    Whitemoon – Infirmary of the High CourtThe smell of burning cloth clung to the infirmary walls. Not from any fire still burning — but from what had already been lost. Aether ash floated like spores through the cracked windows, settling over shattered vials, stained gauze, forgotten instruments.Elise sat beside her mother’s cot, unmoving.A single oil lamp cast a flickering shadow over the room, painting the sharp edges of her mother’s face in gold and bone. She looked smaller now. Not just sick. Hollowed. Her breaths were shallow, uneven — like each one was bartered from a debt she didn’t owe.“I wanted to see you again,” her mother whispered.Elise didn’t cry. Not yet. Her fingers tightened slightly around the frail, cold hand beneath hers.“You did,” she said. “I’m here.”Her mother’s lips trembled upward, just a bit. “You were always too soft.”“I’m not soft anymore,” Elise murmured.“You are,” her mother said, barely audible. “That’s why it worked.”Flashback – The Hidden Room B

  • The Alpha’s Moonbreather    CHAPTER 61

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  • The Alpha’s Moonbreather    CHAPTER 59

    Darkness was not the absence of light.It pulsed.It breathed.It watched.Elise stood in the belly of the Hollow. The chamber stretched endlessly around her, as though time had folded in on itself and forgotten how to end. Faint runes blinked in the walls like dying stars. The air was warm—humid with power that felt ancient and young at once.And ahead of her stood the shadow.Its outline flickered like smoke in flame.Its face… hers. But not.The voice echoed again. This time, clearer.“They built the cycle to bind us. But you are the breach.”Elise didn’t flinch. She stepped closer, fists clenched, her pendant—what remained of it—dangling like a torn promise at her throat.“What are you?” she demanded.The shadow tilted its head. “I am the echo. The leftover. The warning buried in blood.”“Elaborate like a sane person.”“You are the elaboration,” it replied, stepping into the moonlight shaft now slicing through the cracked ceiling. “They called it a gift, Elise. Your bloodline.

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    The wind over the western ridge did not howl — it sighed, as though even the skies mourned.Elise stood at the balcony of the eastern wing, her fingers curled around the cold stone ledge. From here, Whitemoon looked deceptively peaceful. The banners still flew. The courtyards still buzzed with routine. But she felt it. The shift. The way the air pulsed differently, as if something underneath the castle floor was watching. Waiting.She hadn’t spoken much since the binding. Not to Kai. Not to anyone. The ceremonial cuffs still pressed around her wrists, silver filigree glowing faintly when touched by moonlight. A symbol of her “honor.” A prison by another name.Her aunt was gone.No one said it aloud. But Thea had not returned. And that silence was louder than any announcement.Elise exhaled slowly. Her power was still a ghost in her blood, dormant and unreachable. And she, despite all her training, all her sacrifices, was once again reduced to a symbol.She left the balcony and return

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