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Chapter 139_The Infection's Origin
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The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break Chapter 139_The Infection's Origin
Neris's POV"Who made him sick?"I ask it quietly, and nobody in the cottage moves. The lamp leans toward my chest. The mark under my shirt is still burning silver through the cloth, in time with a heartbeat that isn't mine.Healer Fenn's hands have gone stiff on the quilt. "I told you. A spring in the north marches.""The seed says that's a lie.""Seeds don't speak, dear. They sleep.""This one's been awake for eighteen years." I take a step toward the bed. "It says it tasted the sickness on him. Once, when he lifted me onto his shoulders at a harvest fair. Cold smoke, off his skin. It says a spring doesn't taste like that."It tastes like a door, the dry little voice says, calm as a clerk reading back a ledger. I had never smelled one before that day. I knew it the moment the wind turned."A door," I repeat aloud.Fenn's face has lost every trace of color. Behind me the scarred guard appears in the doorway, one hand on his hilt. Cassian turns and meets his eyes without a word, and t
The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break Chapter 138_The Mercy That Became a Lie
Neris's POV"Begged you."I say it once, flat, and the lamp seems to gutter. Healer Fenn's pale eyes don't leave my face."Yes, little one.""He was my father." My voice cracks on the word. "You poured him tea.""With honey. He liked honey." She folds her hands on the quilt. "He thanked me. That was the worst of it."Behind me, Evren makes a sound like he's been punched. He catches the bedpost with one hand. "You brought me tea the night we thought Theron was dead," he says hoarsely. "Honey and cloves.""It's the only recipe I have, dear."Cassian hasn't moved. His hand rests on his sword hilt, and I can't tell whether he knows it."Tell me why," I say. "In order. All of it.""You've heard of the Hollowing.""From my mother's recording."Her eyebrows lift. "Adaeze left you a record. Clever girl." She coughs, a thin dry rattle, and waves off the scarred guard who has appeared in the doorway. "Then you know what it does. Your father caught it the winter before you turned six. Border dut
The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break Chapter 137_The Name in the Seed
Neris's POV"Say that again."I say it aloud, and four heads turn toward me. Cassian's hand tightens on mine. Across the lab, Evren half rises from the bench."Neris? Who are you talking to?""Not you." I keep my palm pressed over my breastbone, where the second pulse is quickening beneath my skin. "It spoke. The seed spoke."I remember who killed your father, the dry little voice says again, patient as a clerk reading back a ledger entry.That voice is older than anything I know, my wolf says, rigid in my chest. I can't tell you whether to trust it."You can't tell me whether to trust you either," I murmur, to both of them.No, the seed agrees, without offense. I can tell you what I saw."I was six."You were. I was in your chest the night you hid beneath the floorboards. You couldn't see the room. I felt it through your skin, through the wood. Your mother sent the others away. Your father stood at the door. A woman sat at the table and poured the tea. The voice pauses. She spoke gen
The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break Chapter 136_What My Mother Put Inside Me
Neris's POVIt's still in me.I say it to nobody, with one palm pressed flat against my collarbone, where the mark is burning like a coal. The recording has gone out. The silver light has drained from the slab, and Lucien is relighting the lantern with hands that won't quite hold still.Behind us, the stone door grinds open without anyone touching it. Petra's students tumble in, red-faced and breathless, and stop short when they see our faces.We heard voices, Petra's younger student says. Are you all right?Fine, Cassian says, in the tone of a man who is not. Give us a minute.They retreat to the doorway. Evren is staring at the empty slab as though it might sit up and apologize. Darius has lowered himself onto a stool, one hand pressed to his bandaged side, and his eyes are fixed on my chest.Say it, I tell him. Whatever you've been holding back since the recording started.I'm not certain.Darius.It's a seed. The word comes out in a rush, as if he's been afraid of it. Your mother
The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break Chapter 135_The Scientist's Daughter
Neris's POV"That's my mother's voice."I say it into the dark before anyone else can. The distortion has fallen away from the recording the way a bell settles after the first strike, and what remains is unmistakable. It is younger than the voice I know now, and lower, without the careful padding she has learned to wrap around her words."You're certain?" Cassian asks."I'd know it anywhere."The silver light from the slab climbs the air above it and gathers into the shape of a woman. She sits on the edge of the stone with her hands folded in her lap, a grey work coat buttoned to the throat, dark hair pinned back in a style I've never seen on her. She is thin and tired and not yet thirty. Behind us, muffled by a foot of stone, Petra's students are still pounding on the sealed door. Nobody turns around."Hello, my darling," the image says. "If you're hearing this, the room has recognized your blood, which means you've grown up and nobody has burned this place down. I'm glad of both."M
The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break Chapter 134_The Experiment That Failed
Neris's POV"Somebody lied on paper."Lucien says it into the silence after Cassian finishes reading, and none of us answers. He has taken the ledger from the table and is flipping backward through it, fast, his thumb snagging the corners of the pages."I was supposed to die at eighteen," I say. My voice sounds borrowed. "My birthday was two months before the forest. They had it written down.""And you're standing here." Cassian's hand closes around mine, hard enough to hurt. "Whoever wrote that page was wrong.""Or someone made them wrong." Lucien lays the ledger flat and stabs a finger at a column near the margin. "Look at the treatment entries. Every one of these is stamped with the three-ringed wheel. Every one orders suppression. Age five, partial suppression, effect minimal. Age sixteen, increased suppression.""I read that.""Read the other column."I lean over his arm. The records have two columns, one for orders and one for what was actually administered. The orders are in th
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