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Chapter 8

Author: Anna Smith
Three days later, the Artifact Division delivered its final findings.

The white collar Jenna had worn around her neck had never been a temple-registered Moon Oath Collar to begin with.

Its internal wiring had been altered. The judgment module had been removed long ago, leaving behind nothing but the simplest light panel. No matter what the wearer said or did, it would only ever glow white.

In other words, Jenna had never truly been “tested” at all.

The white light on her throat had never meant h
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  • The Child You Never Believed   Chapter 8

    Three days later, the Artifact Division delivered its final findings.The white collar Jenna had worn around her neck had never been a temple-registered Moon Oath Collar to begin with.Its internal wiring had been altered. The judgment module had been removed long ago, leaving behind nothing but the simplest light panel. No matter what the wearer said or did, it would only ever glow white.In other words, Jenna had never truly been “tested” at all.The white light on her throat had never meant honesty.It had only ever been a result that had been fixed in advance.The day the report arrived at the Enforcement Office, my mother lost control on the spot.She turned the pages over and over, repeating, “That’s impossible,” under her breath. But the deeper she read, the clearer it became. There were maintenance traces, evidence of tampering, and records tracing the parts back to the black market. The proof came one piece after another, leaving her no room to lie to herself anymore.At last,

  • The Child You Never Believed   Chapter 6

    The technician stepped forward, took the collar from her, and began examining it. Five minutes later, he spoke.“This is not a Moon Oath Collar at all.”“A real Moon Oath Collar is built around dual lunar-breath runes and a bloodline recognition array. The outer engravings are complete, and the inner core is registered through the temple archives. Every single one can be traced back to the maker and the priest who blessed it.”“This one cannot.”He used a pair of tweezers to lift the crude red sensing stone from inside and dropped it onto the table.“This is a cheap red moonstone, fitted with the most basic emotional conduction plate and an old punishment chip. The shell was made to imitate temple design, but there isn’t even a proper lunar circuit inside it.”“To put it simply, this is a fake.”“Someone took a civilian emotional-response collar, altered it to look like a Moon Oath Collar, and added a punishment function so it could be used to deceive people. It cannot tell truth from

  • The Child You Never Believed   Chapter 5

    In the interrogation room at the Black Pine Pack Enforcement Office, I drifted near the ceiling and watched my mother sit across the table with both hands locked hard over her knees. She looked ten years older than she had the night before. There were dark circles under her eyes, her lips had lost their color, and her hair was still in disarray. Even here, she still refused to admit she had done anything wrong.She was afraid. She was afraid that the thing she had trusted for more than ten years would finally prove that she had killed her own daughter with her own hands.The collar they had removed from my neck lay on the table between them.The black leather band was still stained with darkened blood and scorched bits of flesh, and a shred of my skin was still caught inside the clasp. Yet the red moonstone at its center, the one meant to show the result of its judgment, was still flashing in sharp, steady pulses.The enforcement captain sat across from her with the interrogation notes

  • The Child You Never Believed   Chapter 4

    Mom’s hand froze too.A second earlier, she had still been clutching my collar with all her strength, but then it was as if something struck her hard. She let go at once and staggered back two steps.With nothing holding it up anymore, my body slid sideways from the chair. My forehead hit the edge of the desk with a heavy thud.But I could not feel pain anymore.That sound seemed to jolt Mom awake. Her face went white in an instant.Because she had finally seen my face.It was no longer the face of the little daughter she knew, the one who always kept her head down and never dared meet her eyes.My skin had turned dark and ashen, the flesh around my eyes was swollen, and blood had seeped from my ears.The eyes she had always accused of “playing pitiful” were half open now, staring blankly ahead, and they would never light up again just because she said my name.“No…”“That’s impossible…”She refused to believe it. She lunged at me again, reaching for my face, my neck, and the breath be

  • The Child You Never Believed   Chapter 3

    The next morning, sunlight slipped through the curtains and fell across my body, but it brought no warmth with it.The sound of dishes clinking drifted up from downstairs.Mom was already awake.Before long, the smell of bacon, buttered bread, and rich meat stew spread through the house.Whenever my collar had glowed red in the past, she would make food like this to force me to give in.That morning, she opened and shut the cabinets extra loudly, and the spoon kept striking the rim of the pot in sharp, deliberate beats.She was waiting for me to open the door on my own, lower my head, and confess, just as I always had before when I gave in for the sake of one hot meal and admitted to things I had never done.But the dead do not get hungry.“Evelyn still hasn’t come out?”Dad sat at the long table, drinking milk as he asked the question casually.“No.” Mom set the bowl down hard, her voice cold. “She’s stubborn as ever. I’d like to see how long she can keep this up.”“If she doesn’t wan

  • The Child You Never Believed   Chapter 2

    I woke to the sound of laughter.Dad, Mom, my sister, and Elijah had come back.“The moonberry cake was wonderful tonight. Jenna’s eyes lit up the second she saw it.”Mom’s voice was full of warmth at first, but when she spoke again, it turned cold with disappointment.“When Evelyn finally stops lying, maybe she can have some too.”As a spirit, I still moved on instinct. I wanted to crouch down the way I always used to, hang up their coats, and line up their slippers neatly by the door.It was a habit I had learned when I was very small.“Mom.” I opened my arms and tried to hug her. “I wasn’t lying this time. Look, I really died.”But my hands passed straight through her body, as if I were reaching through a sheet of cold mist.Mom paused and frowned.“Why is the house so cold?”“Did the wall furnace go out?”I froze where I was and looked down at my pale, transparent hands.Dead children cannot touch the living.And my mother could not hear me either.“Go check on Evelyn,” Dad said ca

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