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The Devil you called The blood that remembers
**CHAPTER TWELVEThe warning came from Sarai’s blood before it came from the world.She woke screaming, hands clutching her stomach, a sharp, unfamiliar pain slicing through her like ice. The realm answered immediately—walls pulsing, wards flaring, shadows snapping into place like soldiers called to attention.Malik was at her side before her scream finished echoing.“What’s wrong?” he demanded, already scanning the room, fire burning low beneath his skin.Sarai shook her head, breath coming fast. “It’s not pain like before,” she gasped. “It’s… memory.”Her vision fractured.Suddenly she wasn’t in the hidden realm.She was standing in a ruined house on Earth—her childhood home. The walls were scorched, furniture overturned, blood staining the floor where laughter used to live. She smelled smoke, heard echoes of voices long gone, and then—A woman stepped out of the shadows.Her mother.Not as Sarai remembered her in sickness or death, but strong, eyes sharp, spirit blazing like a torc
The Devil you called The cost of being seen
CHAPTER EIGHTThe realm didn’t heal after the Hunters left.It bruised.Hairline fractures crawled along the obsidian ground, glowing faintly like veins beneath skin, and the wards Aunt Dee had layered over centuries flickered as if unsure they still wanted to exist. Sarai sat cross-legged at the center of the room, breathing slowly, palms open, sweat cooling on her spine.Every breath felt heavier than the last.Malik watched from the shadows, jaw clenched, because he could feel it too—the way her presence bent the space around her now. The way the baby’s aura pressed outward like a tide that didn’t know how to recede.“You can’t keep burning yourself like that,” he said finally, and his voice was calm, but the fire under his skin betrayed him.“I didn’t burn,” Sarai replied quietly. “I anchored.”“That’s worse,” Aunt Dee cut in, reinforcing a cracked sigil. “Anchoring ties you to the realm. The more you do it, the harder it’ll be to leave.”Sarai’s hand drifted to her stomach. “Mayb
The Devil you called When the realm bleeds
CHAPTER SEVENThe first breach didn’t announce itself with fire or screams.It announced itself with silence.Sarai felt it before anyone else did a wrongness slipping under her skin, thin as a blade, sharp as a lie. The baby went still inside her, not asleep but alert, and that alone made her heart begin to pound.Something had crossed a line.She straightened where she stood, fingers curling instinctively, and the faint glow that had lingered in her palms dimmed. The forbidden word still echoed faintly in her bones, but now it felt… disturbed. Like a bell struck underwater.Aunt Dee looked up sharply from the ward circle she was reinforcing. “You felt that too.”Sarai nodded. “They didn’t force their way in.”Malik was already moving, shadows snapping tight around his shoulders as his senses stretched outward. “No,” he said grimly. “They were invited.”The word landed heavy.“Invited by who?” Sarai asked, though dread already coiled in her stomach.Before either of them could answer
The Devil you called The word that bites back
CHAPTER SIXThe forbidden language did not sound like speech.It sounded like pressure.Sarai learned that on the first day the ancestors decided she was ready to hear it.They led her beyond the stone rooms and wards of Aunt Dee’s refuge, past a veil of mist that burned cold against her skin, into a hollow carved out of nowhere. The ground there was smooth and dark, like obsidian polished by time itself, and the air vibrated with a tension that made her teeth ache.Malik stopped at the edge.“I can’t cross,” he said quietly, and for once there was no anger in his voice—only truth.Sarai turned back to him. “Why?”“This place doesn’t belong to demons,” Aunt Dee answered, stepping up beside him. “Or humans. It’s older than both.”Malik’s gaze stayed locked on Sarai. “You don’t have to do this.”Sarai felt the baby stir, not violently, but insistently, and she knew this wasn’t about bravery anymore. It was about inevitability.“I do,” she said, and she reached for Malik’s hand, but thei
The Devil you called Those who came before
CHAPTER FIVEThe first ancestor arrived at dawn.Not through a door.Not through shadow.Through Sarai.She woke with a sharp gasp, her body arching as heat rushed up her spine, and for one terrifying moment she thought something had gone wrong with the baby. Her hands flew to her stomach instinctively, breath shallow, heart racing.But the pulse there was calm. Steady. Strong.It wasn’t fear she felt.It was recognition.The hidden realm glowed softly with early light, the sky above painted in colors that didn’t exist on Earth—muted golds and bruised violets folding into one another like a living thing. Sarai pushed herself upright on the stone bed, and that’s when she felt it.She wasn’t alone in her body.Not possessed.Not overtaken.Accompanied.A voice stirred inside her—not the baby’s, but older. Wiser. Worn smooth by centuries of survival.Easy, child. Breathe. We would never harm our own.Tears sprang to Sarai’s eyes before she could stop them. “Who… who are you?”The air in
The Devil you called The weight of knowing
**CHAPTER FOURSarai didn’t sleep that night, and it wasn’t because the realm refused rest it was because knowledge had weight, and it pressed against her chest until breathing felt like work.The hidden realm was quiet, but it wasn’t peaceful. The air shimmered with magic that hadn’t been disturbed in centuries, and the ground beneath her bare feet hummed softly, as if it remembered every secret it had ever swallowed. Sarai sat on the edge of the low stone bed Aunt Dee had prepared for her, one hand resting over her stomach, and she listened to the rhythm inside her that no longer felt like imagination.The baby was awake.She could feel it—not kicking, not moving, but watching. The awareness pulsed beneath her skin, steady and patient, and it scared her more than any monster ever had.“You shouldn’t be able to think yet,” Sarai whispered, but her voice didn’t shake this time, and that frightened her too.The candles around the room flickered, and shadows stretched long across the wa
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