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Chapter 79: The Site
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The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 81: The Point Was The Storage
"They suppressed everything they could reach," Aldric said. "The Point was the storage. The lines were the distribution network. The sites where the lines converged naturally were the access points. Sealing the Point without suppressing the lines would have been incomplete -- the magic would have found other ways out through the conduits. So they suppressed the conduits too." "And the redistribution is unsuppressing them," I said. "Yes," he said. "From the inside out. The magic moving through the lines is wider than what the suppression was designed to contain. Three hundred years of compression and the release is -- considerable." Rowan, who had been riding ahead of us and who I had assumed was not listening, said without turning around: "How considerable?" "The southern site is the largest natural convergence in the known territories," Aldric said. "By historical documentation the site at full activation would have produced a perceptible field for approximately two miles in
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 80: Forty Years
--- *Author's Note: 'You just don't always know you're racing.' Rowan said it and I had to stop writing. That's the whole story in one sentence. She has been racing since the carriage and she didn't know it and now she knows it and she is riding at five in the morning. Pip said 'she's going to get there first' and nobody disagreed. Next chapter-- the southern site. What three hundred years of dormancy looks like when it ends. --- We rode out at five in the morning into a darkness that had not yet decided to become dawn. Four of us: me, Caius, Aldric, Rowan. Sable had wanted to come and Kael had pointed out, in the flat precise way he pointed out things that were not negotiable, that someone needed to stay at Ironveil and manage the Luka Moe channel and monitor for any response from Vex's network and that Sable was the most qualified person for both tasks simultaneously. Sable had looked at him for a long moment and then agreed, which I noted was the first time I had seen her a
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 79: The Site
Doran was waiting. Solveig Karlsen was holding the administrative structure together. Håkon Berge and Anna Solberg were leading eleven redistribution recipients who were gravitating toward each other without understanding why. All of that was still true. Still real. Still waiting. "The Ashveil trip is still happening," I said. Rowan looked at me. "But," I said, "something happens before it." "The site," Caius said. He was not asking. "I need to see it," I said. "Before Ashveil. Before the nine days are up. I need to go to that site and assess it myself and understand what it is and what it's doing and whether the activation timeline Aldric described is accurate or whether Vex has already begun accelerating it." "That means going into territory adjacent to Vex's purchased perimeter," Kael said. "Yes," I said. "Which means potentially alerting Vex that we know about the site," he said. "He already knows we know," I said. "The moment I opened the Convergence Point an
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 78: Vex Has The Perimeter
"A fully active natural Convergence location," he said, "with freely distributed old magic running through it, is the closest thing to the original source that currently exists in the known territories. It is not a sealed storage site. It is a living conduit. Anyone with the right ability and the right knowledge standing at the center of it would have access to old magic at a level that has not existed since before the council. Not redistributed magic. The source itself. Directly." The war room was very still. "And Vex has the perimeter," Caius said. "Vex has the perimeter," Aldric confirmed. "Which means he controls physical access to the site. Which means when the site reaches full activation -- and with the redistribution running through it, that is a matter of weeks, not months -- the person with the right ability standing at its center will be whoever Vex allows to stand there." "Or whoever gets there first," Rowan said. He was looking at me when he said it. I looked at
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 77: The Wrong Trip
He had been quiet for most of the session, which was unusual for Rowan -- his participation in war room discussions was typically frequent and lateral, the thinking of someone who approached problems from angles that nobody else had tried yet and who was not self-conscious about saying things that turned out to be wrong because the process of being wrong productively was, in his view, how you eventually got to right. His silence tonight had been a different kind. The silence of someone who had been sitting with something and deciding whether to say it. He said it. "We're planning the wrong trip," he said. Everyone looked at him. He looked at the map on the table. At the eleven marked properties. At the stone near the southern border that Aldric had not been able to stop looking at since it was placed there. "Sera is going to Ashveil in nine days to face her family and reckon with her past and walk into a fragmented pack and deal with Carver and do the personal thing she has
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 76: I Watch For Coincidences
Pip nodded. He looked at the relocated desk. Then at me. "So Vex knows I exist," he said. "What does that mean practically?" "It means he may try to approach you directly," I said. "Now that he has a name. It will not look like an approach. It will look like coincidence. A stranger at the market. Someone new joining the patrol. A letter arriving that seems to be misdirected but contains something that seems relevant to you." "I watch for coincidences," he said. "Yes," I said. "And you tell me immediately when you find one." He nodded. Then he said: "The desk looks wrong on that wall." I looked at the desk. "It does," I said. "Help me move it back," he said. I helped him move it back. We did not talk while we moved it. We did not need to. The desk went back to its original position and Pip stood back and assessed it and said "yes" with the satisfaction of something correctly resolved and I thought about a seventeen year old boy with old magic waking up in his bloo
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 3: Servant
By the third morning I understood exactly what Ironveil intended to do with me.Not kill me. Not break me the way the curse had broken the last one. Something slower and more deliberate than that. Something the pack had clearly done before to people they wanted gone without the mess of direct confr
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 2: Ironveil
Ironveil was not what I had pictured.I stepped down from the carriage and the cold slapped my bare arms. The gown's torn hem caught on the iron step again. I jerked it free. Lace ripped louder this time. Two dozen wolves stood in the courtyard in human form, lined up like statues along the swept
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 1: The Spare
They told me at four in the morning.The seamstress had already dragged me out of bed and shoved me into the center of the room. Candles flickered on the dresser. Cold air licked my bare legs. Hana knelt at my feet with a mouthful of pins and yanked the white lace gown over my hips. The fabric was
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 6: The Summon
The summons came at first light.It wasn't delivered by Heda, the stern housekeeper, or through Kael's silent surveillance. A heavy, folded slip of vellum was slid under my door just as the gray dawn began to bleed through the curtains. There was no greeting and no signature. There were only three
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