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Chapter 7 – Echoes in the Stone (Aeryn)
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The Hallow Crown Chapter 10 – The Gathering Storm (Kaela)
The winds had changed.By the time we emerged from the mountain’s hidden sanctum, the sky had darkened with storm clouds — not just weather, but a omen. The wolves that had howled in the distance two nights before were silent now. And that silence was worse.We didn’t speak for a long time, picking our way down the mountain pass in cloaks too thin for the cold and magic that still hummed under my skin. Each step away from the sanctum was like stepping back into a war we weren’t ready to name.It wasn’t until we made camp — a hollow beneath a stone overhang, hidden in the crags — that the words came.Aeryn struck the flint three times before the fire caught, his hands trembling only slightly. The bond still flared between us like a pulse, its rhythm uneven since the trial.I sat opposite him, knees drawn up beneath her cloak, my eyes on the fire. I was lost in thought about what I seen in the sanctum. He still hasn’t told me what he, I told him as we walked out of the tunnels. “You d
The Hallow Crown Chapter 9 – The First Trial
(Aeryn)I landed in silence.No wind. No sky. Just a cold, deeper than winter, bone-deep and sterile. The stone beneath my boots was familiar: Frostfang marble, cracked and rimed with ice. The training yard. Only... wrong.The compound was in ruins, buried beneath snow and broken columns. Red flags snapped in the wind, but no sigil marked them — only a burn, as if clan identity had been stripped by fire.“Aeryn.”The voice froze me. Low. Icy. Etched into my memory like old wounds.My father.I turned slowly.Alpha Cael, my father stood beneath the remains of the main hall arch, whole and hale, armor gleaming with frost-forged steel. But his eyes were hollow. Lifeless. Judging.“You were never meant to lead,” my father said.“You're dead,” I answered. “And I didn’t come back for your legacy.”“No,” his father replied. “You came back for her.”Kaela’s voice echoed behind him, distant “Aeryn” but when I turned, she wasn’t there. Only shadow.“She weakens you,” Cael said again, stepping c
The Hallow Crown Chapter 8 – The Path of Echoes (Kaela)
The mountain had a silence that was different now. It seemed to be listening.I stepped lightly over the sigils that had appeared with the morning frost — glyphs etched in moonlight across stone and snow, pulsing faintly beneath their boots. The disk in my hand grew warmer the deeper we went into the pass, as if recognizing the path from memory, not map.Aeryn walked beside me, quieter than usual, but steady. The fever had burned something out of him — or perhaps burned something into him. His magic felt sharper now. More alive. Like the bond had settled deeper than bone.By midday, the path led us to a narrow ravine split by an ancient staircase, half-buried in ice. It descended into the heart of the mountain — where no clan symbols marked the stone, and no histories claimed ownership.I paused at the threshold, hand braced against the worn archway above the stairs.“Do you feel that?” I murmured.Aeryn nodded once. “It’s like... memory. But not ours.”As we took the first step int
The Hallow Crown Chapter 7 – Echoes in the Stone (Aeryn)
The Frostfang blade still lay where I had found it, half-buried in moss near the old watchtower. But now a second object rested beside it, a stone disk etched with a sigil older than either of their clans. The moment my fingers brushed it, it hummed with a heat that traveled through my veins, settling behind his ribs like a pulse out of time. I didn’t know what it was. Only had a feeling that Kaela would. She met me in the shrine again, summoned by the tug of the bond and the scent of my magic on the wind. When she came through the clearing my eyes locked onto her immediately. I walked towards her with the disk in my hand. “What is this?” said asked.Kaela turned the disk over in her hand, her voice barely above a whisper. “I saw this in the restricted records once before. It predates Frostfang. Predates Lunari. This wasn’t a bond meant for love or war. It’s... a call. A lock. And we’re the key.”I stood there and my gaze didn’t waver not once. “Then what are we opening?”
The Hallow Crown Chapter 6 – Blood Oaths and Broken Lines (Kaela)
Dawn crept over the treetops as they left the shrine, neither of them speaking much. The connection between them pulsed low and steady, not insistent, but present and growing stronger. By the time we reached the outer edge of Veyra, the city was already stirring. Guard rotations shifted. Watchfires dimmed. And word of the council’s fracture had begun to spread like embers in dry grass. Aeryn vanished into the western rooftops before I crossed the threshold. We couldn’t be seen arriving together. In this moment they needed to see that I was strong alone, not just because I bonded Aeryn. They needed to know that I took my vows and dedication to the realm seriously. I wasn’t going to just sit back and hid from this fight. Not with everything unraveling.The summons came before midday. She was sitting in the abandoned temple of the Moon Goddess with Aeryn and the mind link from my father “You will be at the palace by sundown; the circle has invoked the blood truth.” was all that h
The Hallow Crown Chapter 5 – Masks and Monsters (Kaela)
The Hall of accord echoed with too much silence. Everyone was gone except for my father, his two enforcers, Erdan, and myself. I stood beneath the high arched ceiling, cold light dripping from the glass dome above. The council had dispersed hours ago, but her father remained seated, flanked by two Frostfang enforcers, both watching her as if she were a blade that might swing without warning. Like I was a threat to him. As cold as my father was, I did not hate him I just wanted him to love and except me.“You didn’t tell me,” Alpha Myras said, voice level, but edged in steel. “About the bond.”I didn’t flinch. “Because I didn’t choose it.”“No one does.” He rose slowly; steps precise. “But only fools pretend it isn’t real.”I kept her hands at her sides, fingers twitching to shield the mark beneath my sleeve. “It changes nothing.”Myras’s eyes narrowed. “It changes everything.”He crossed the floor in a few strides, stopping just before me. “Do you think the other clans will allow
The Hallow Crown Chapter 4 – Eyes in the Dark (Aeryn)
I should have left after she did. The tower ruins were empty now, save for the scent she left behind vanilla, berries, frost and dusk flowers, tangled with the electric tang of shared magic. It lingered on his skin like a memory.I leaned against the crumbling wall, my head tilted back, breath steadying. I held her wrist. Touched the mark. Spoken words that could change the course of two bloodlines.And still, part of myself still wanted to run. Not from her but from what she made me feel.You’re not my fate. You’re my choice. I wanted to say it then. It had sat behind my teeth, heavy as iron. But it wasn’t time yet. A crunch of gravel snapped me out of the thought. Too late. I wasn’t alone.My wolf surged to the surface in an instant, sharpening his senses. Someone was watching. And they were close.I turned just as a shadow moved behind the far wall. A flicker of movement fast, wrong. I drew my blade and moved without sound, a predator hunting another.But when I reached the edg
The Hallow Crown Chapter 3 – The Edge of the Flame (Kaela)
The moon had risen, low and gold in the sky, by the time I was able to slip from the Hall of Accord. I told her father that she was going to head home and rest. But that is not where I was heading, I needed answers and there was only one person I could get them from. The mark on my wrist still pulsed faintly beneath my cuff, a heartbeat that didn’t belong to me or my wolf. I could feel the tether, not just to Aeryn, but to something larger. Something ancient. Something watching. I followed the pull, and I found him where I expected, not in the city, but at its edge, near the ruins of the old watchtower that once marked the border of Lunari lands. Wolves always returned to familiar paths, even in exile.He didn’t look surprised to see her. Just... tired. There was something deeper in his eyes, as hard as I tried, I couldn’t read it, but it felt so sad and lonely. "You're not very subtle," he said."And you're not very hidden." I replied. Aeryn glanced over his shoulder, then lea
The Hallow Crown Chapter 2 – The Tether Beneath the Skin (Aeryn)
The hall stank of false peace. I stood at the edge of the council chamber, one hand resting on the hilt of the curved blade at my hip. Not wanting to be in this place, every instinct told me to turn and walk away melt into the shadows of Veyra like I always had. I scanned over the hall but stopped on her, not because I had a choice, but the pull was like a magnet. The FrostFang Princess, the daughter of the Alpha that helped led the purge, Kaela Frostfang. The man was responsible for my father’s death. She sat there with eyes that looked right into your soul. She was not cold but composed. Grace in the shape of a woman. Her hair was silver, blonde, braided and coiled, her eyes the color of storm-washed ice. She looked at me like she’d already calculated ten ways to destroy me and none of them involved drawing a blade.Then the pain started. Not physically. Not even visible. A slow burn just beneath the skin, coiling in my chest like a thread tightening. Like two halves comin
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