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Chapter 16: The Other Warden

ผู้เขียน: Miracle Ambrose
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Nobody moved for what felt like a full minute, five people frozen in a doorway staring at a girl who looked, in the dim training-circle light, unsettlingly ordinary. Brown hair. Plain clothes. The kind of face that would have disappeared into any school hallway without a second glance, and Wren understood with a jolt that this was probably the entire point. The Ashkindred hadn't just found a second Warden. They'd raised one specifically to blend in.

"You're lying," Wren said, though her voice d
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  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 18: The Fox Spirit's Reasons

    Training doubled after that, then doubled again, until Wren's days folded into a single blurred rhythm of the circle, the ache in her shoulders, and the particular exhaustion that came from using a part of herself she'd only known about for a month. She was getting stronger. She could feel it, the light responding faster now, holding its shape longer before it slipped loose of her control. But strength wasn't the same as readiness, and some nights, lying awake long after the others had finally let her sleep, she wasn't sure the gap between the two was closing fast enough.It was Kai who found her on one of those nights, sitting alone on the low wall outside the dormitory long after curfew, staring at nothing in particular."You should be asleep," he said, though he sat down beside her anyway instead of insisting on it."So should you.""Fair." He didn't offer an excuse, just settled into the quiet the way he always did, comfortable with silence in a way none of the others quite manage

  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 17: What the Circle Remembers

    Aldric had the training facility searched twice before he'd let any of them leave it, and both times the answer came back the same. No trace. No residue of magic beyond what the circle itself had absorbed over centuries of quiet waiting. Whoever the girl was, she'd vanished as cleanly as she'd arrived, and that fact alone unsettled Aldric more than anything she'd actually said."A teleportation working that clean isn't something an untrained Warden should be capable of,"he said, pacing the length of his office once they'd finally reconvened there, the pre-dawn light starting to creep gray through the shattered window he still hadn't had repaired. "Whatever the Ashkindred taught her, it goes well beyond what any historical record describes a Warden's power being capable of.""Maybe the records are wrong," Kai said. "Maybe nobody's ever had eleven years to actually figure out what a Warden can do, because every other one got killed before they had the chance."The thought sat heavy in t

  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 16: The Other Warden

    Nobody moved for what felt like a full minute, five people frozen in a doorway staring at a girl who looked, in the dim training-circle light, unsettlingly ordinary. Brown hair. Plain clothes. The kind of face that would have disappeared into any school hallway without a second glance, and Wren understood with a jolt that this was probably the entire point. The Ashkindred hadn't just found a second Warden. They'd raised one specifically to blend in."You're lying," Wren said, though her voice didn't come out nearly as certain as she wanted it to."Am I?" The girl tilted her head, the silver light around her hands pulsing gently, steady in a way Wren still wasn't after three weeks of practice. "You felt something the first time your power woke up, didn't you. Pressure. Like a door finally giving way. I felt the exact same thing, except I felt it when I was seven years old, and I've had eleven years to get good at it since."Eleven years. Wren did the math without meaning to and didn't

  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 15: Inside the Wards

    The alarm came at midnight, not the sharp klaxon Wren had half expected from every academy movie she'd never actually seen but a low, resonant tone that seemed to come from the stone itself, vibrating up through the floor of her dormitory room until she was awake and moving before her mind had fully caught up to why.Rhys was at her door before she'd finished pulling on her shoes, already half-dressed, jaw set in a way that told her this wasn't a drill."Someone's inside the wards," he said. "Aldric's mobilizing everyone. Move."The corridor outside was chaos in the particular controlled way Wren was starting to associate with this school, students spilling from doors already half-shifted, eyes gone gold or slit-pupiled or simply too alert for midnight, everyone moving with a purpose she couldn't fully read but understood the shape of well enough to follow.Kaelen met them at the stairwell, Lysander and Kai close behind him, and for a moment the five of them simply fell into formation

  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 14: Four Kinds of Fire

    Training changed after that. Aldric stopped treating it like theory and started treating it like a countdown, and the four of them apparently agreed with him without needing to discuss it, because within a week the empty stone building behind the hedge maze had turned into something that looked less like a classroom and more like a war room with a training circle bolted to the middle of it."Again," Rhys said, for what felt like the fortieth time that afternoon, and Wren dropped back into the circle with legs that had stopped fully cooperating an hour ago.She'd gotten better at releasing the light on command, faster now, less like coaxing a locked door open and more like exhaling. What she hadn't gotten better at was controlling where it went once it was loose, and the scorch mark along the far wall was proof enough of that."You're still holding your shoulders like you're bracing for it to hurt," Kaelen said, watching from the circle's edge with his arms crossed. "It doesn't hurt. S

  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 13: Four Centuries of Watching

    Aldric summoned them again two days later, and this time he didn't wait for all five of them to sit before he started talking."The fabric Mr. Fenwick found at checkpoint nine belongs to a faction the Sundering doesn't publicly associate with." He set the scrap on the desk between them, the black-threaded symbol catching the light in a way that made it look, for just a moment, almost like it was moving. "A splinter group calling themselves the Ashkindred. Formed roughly forty years ago, composed largely of supernaturals who believe the Veil should have fallen already, and that Wardens have spent three centuries delaying something that should be allowed to happen.""Delaying what, exactly?" Lysander's voice had gone very careful, the tone he used when he already suspected an answer he didn't like."A full merging of the two worlds. No Veil, no separation, humans and supernaturals sharing one reality with no barrier managing the difference in power between them." Aldric's expression did

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