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Chapter 7: Lessons Nobody Volunteered For

Author: Miracle Ambrose
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-08-05 06:26:52

Aldric didn't send her back to her dormitory that night. He sent her to the infirmary instead, along with Kaelen, whose arm turned out to need eleven stitches and a great deal of insisting before he'd let the healer near it.

Wren sat on the cot across from his, wrapped in a scratchy blanket someone had put around her shoulders without asking, watching a woman with silver hands stitch a dragon's shifter skin back together like it was ordinary Tuesday work. Maybe it was. Maybe that was the whole
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  • The Last Warden: Chosen by Four    Chapter 29: A Debt Come Due

    The consequences of the archive found her before lunch.A staff member Wren didn't recognize intercepted her outside the dining hall, expression carefully neutral in the way that meant trouble dressed as procedure, and informed her that Headmaster Aldric wished to see her immediately regarding a missing staff key card and unauthorized access to restricted archive records.She walked to his office with her stomach in knots, the folded note and map still hidden in her jacket, rehearsing explanations that all sounded worse out loud than they had in her head.Aldric didn't raise his voice when she arrived, which somehow made it worse than if he had."You accessed your mother's file without my knowledge," he said, not a question. "Using a credential that wasn't yours to use.""I did." She saw no version of this where lying improved anything. "I needed to know what actually happened, not the version you decided I was ready to hear."Something flickered across his composed expression, not qu

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    She chose Kai, in the end, not because she trusted him more than the others but because she trusted his particular skill more for exactly this kind of task. Kaelen would have wanted to confront Aldric directly, certain and forceful in the way dragons tended to be. Lysander would have wanted to solve it as a puzzle laid out on a table, methodical and visible. Rhys would have simply said the true thing to Aldric's face and accepted whatever fallout came from it. Kai was the only one of them who knew, instinctively, how to move through a place without anyone noticing he'd been there at all, and Wren needed exactly that kind of quiet if she wanted to find Aldermere before anyone decided to stop her from looking.She found him in the training yard after hours, and told him everything: the archive, the note, the name that meant nothing to her and apparently nothing Aldric had ever chosen to share.He didn't ask why she hadn't gone to the headmaster first. She appreciated that more than she

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