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chapter 9: Breaking point
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2026-07-08 02:35:46
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The Last Heiress chapter 9: Breaking point
The siege lasted for seventeen days.I would love to tell you that they were seventeen days of constant action, of heroic battles and clever defense strategies. But the truth is that most of them were boring in a way that is difficult to describe to someone who hasn't experienced it. The Scourge would probe the walls, we would shoot arrows, the creatures would retreat. This would happen several times a day, with long stretches of waiting in between.The real enemy, I learned, wasn't the creatures outside the walls. It was boredom, exhaustion, and the slow erosion of hope.We took shifts on the walls, each shift lasting four hours. Between shifts, we were supposed to rest, but rest is difficult when you're living in a city that's under siege, when you can see the creatures moving outside the walls, when you can hear the occasional screams from the refugee camps as morale continued to deteriorate.On the fifth day of the siege, one of the mages maintaining the barrier collapsed. Accordi
The Last Heiress chapter 8: Karenthel under siege
They put us in a barracks on the western side of the city—a building that had probably once housed soldiers but had been mostly cleared out to make room for refugees. There were pallets on the floor, a communal eating area, and what amounted to actual beds. After sleeping on the ground for the better part of six weeks, the pallets felt like luxury.But I couldn't sleep.Dovette lay on a pallet next to mine, and I could tell from her breathing that she wasn't sleeping either."How many do you think?" she asked quietly."The creatures? I don't know. Fifty? Hundred? More?""And we're supposed to fight them?" There was something like hysteria creeping into her voice. "We can barely fight each other, Raina. We've had, what, two months of training? Those things have been doing this for years, probably. Since the start of the world, for all we know.""I know," I said."And you're okay with that?"I thought about lying. I thought about saying yes, of course I was okay with it, of course I was
The Last Heiress chapter 7: The road to karenthel
The journey to Karenthel in winter is not something I would recommend to anyone, and I say this having actually survived it. The path winds down from the mountains through increasingly deeper snow, and the wind that funnels through the high passes is the kind that cuts right through layers of clothing and makes you question every life decision that brought you to the moment of being outside in it.But Vex knew the route, and she pushed us hard."If we're going to make a difference in Karenthel, we need to arrive before the Scourge does," she kept saying. "Which means we need to move faster than we think we can."We left the keep with what few supplies we could carry—weapons, food, water in flasks that froze solid every night. Corvin had given us letters to present to the city authorities, explaining who we were and what we were offering. I wasn't sure how much good a letter would do in the face of an attack, but it was something.The first day was almost beautiful, in a terrible kind
The Last Heiress Chapter 6: The weight of training
Winter in the mountains is a thing of brutal beauty. The snow falls with an almost ceremonial precision, layering itself across the landscape in progressively deeper drifts. The mornings are bitter cold—cold that seeps into your bones and makes you question whether you'll ever feel warm again. But there's also a strange clarity to it, as if the cold strips away everything unnecessary and leaves you facing only what matters.Solace's training did that for us—stripped away the unnecessary and forced us to face what we actually were. Survivors, mostly. People who hadn't asked for the ability to fight, but found ourselves in a situation where that ability might be the only thing standing between us and extinction.The first week was brutal. Solace worked us through basic forms—sword work, staff fighting, archery for those with the aptitude for it. My arm, freshly healed, protested vehemently, but I pushed through it. Solace had a way of making weakness feel like personal failure, and pers
The Last Heiress Chapter 5: Winter's preparations
Raina's pov The winter came early that year, sweeping down from the mountains with a ferocity that suggested the world itself was trying to reinforce the Scourge's work by freezing us to death. The first real snow fell in October, thick and heavy, and by November, we'd already lost two of our number to cold-related injuries and complications. But we adapted. We prepared. And slowly, slowly, something that looked like stability began to emerge from the chaos. Captain Solace proved to be invaluable in the organization of the keep. She worked with Corvin to establish a routine—morning duties, afternoon food preparation, evening discussions about rationing and supplies. She also set up a training schedule for those who were willing to learn basic combat skills. I joined her class, partly because Dovette did, and partly because the idea of being able to defend myself against something other than my own despair was appealing. "You're thinking too much when you fight," Solace told me o
The Last Heiress Chapter 4: The Stronghold
Raina's pov The keep was smaller than I expected, but that might have been because so much of it was burning.The outer walls were still standing—thick stone, ancient but relatively unblemished by the Scourge's direct attention. But the buildings inside the walls, the structures that would have housed the garrison and stored the supplies necessary to survive a siege, were engulfed in flames. The smoke rolled across the mountainside in thick, dark waves, carrying with it the smell of burning wood and something else, something that made my stomach turn over."We can still use this," Corvin said, though she didn't sound like she entirely believed it. "The walls are intact. We can clear out the rubble, set up camp in the courtyard. The fires are already burning out—see how the smoke is lessening?"She was right about the smoke. But the reason it was lessening was because there wasn't much left to burn. As we approached the main gate, I could see bodies scattered throughout the courtyard.
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