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The Forest Connection

Author: Scarlet heart
last update publish date: 2026-08-15 07:14:21

Rowan remained bent over the old evacuation record, explaining that the eastern passage referenced in the survivor’s testimony had been sealed centuries ago, though it still appeared on the oldest palace maps.

The modern palace held almost no reference to it at all.

“Why not?” Lucien asked.

“Later architects seem to have deliberately removed it from newer maps,” Rowan said.

I understood the pattern settling into place. First the princess erased from record. Now the very route used to save her,
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  • The Luna My Alpha Regrets Losing   What They Carry

    The lights steadied again within seconds, though the silence that followed lasted considerably longer, none of us quite willing to be the first to speak after what had just happened.“It’s listening,” Lyra had said, and no one in that room had asked her to explain further, not yet, not while her small hand was still gripped around mine and her face had gone paler than I’d ever seen it.I was the one who finally broke the silence, because someone needed to, and because I refused to let fear decide what happened next any more than I’d ever allowed it to before.“We’re not doing this tonight,” I said. “Not the explanations, not the theories, not any of it. My children need rest, and so do the rest of us, and nothing useful gets decided by people too frightened to think clearly.”The High Priestess, visibly shaken herself, didn’t argue. “Tomorrow, then,” she said. “I’ll bring everything I have. All of it, this time. No more careful half-answers.”“Good,” I said. “Because I’m finished acce

  • The Luna My Alpha Regrets Losing   What The Crown Was Guarding Against

    Rowan moved the moment Lyra finished speaking, calling for guards to quietly secure the archive wing without raising alarm through the rest of the palace, while Lucien stayed close enough to Lyra that she visibly steadied simply from his presence beside her.“I need the name,” I told Rowan, my earlier caution gone entirely now that Lyra’s warning had made waiting feel like its own kind of danger.He didn’t hesitate this time. “Serah Voss,” he said. “Senior archivist. She’s held that position for just over eleven years, with full legitimate access to every restricted section we’ve been tracing this entire time.”The name meant nothing to me personally, no face attached to it that I could immediately recall, which somehow made it worse rather than better. A quiet, trusted presence I’d likely passed a dozen times without a second thought, exactly the kind of person no one would think to suspect.“Find her,” Lucien said. “Quietly. I want her located and contained before she realizes we kn

  • The Luna My Alpha Regrets Losing   The Name In The Log

    Rowan returned to us two days later, and I understood from the set of his shoulders before he’d said a word that whatever he’d confirmed hadn’t made anything easier.“I wanted to be certain before I brought this to you,” he said, once Lucien had joined us and the door was secured behind him. “I’ve spent the past two days verifying it against every record I could find. I didn’t want to be wrong about something like this.”“But you’re not wrong,” I said.“No,” he said. “I’m not.”He laid out what he’d confirmed carefully, methodically, the way he always did when the weight of something required him to slow down rather than rush through it. The name from the eleven-year-old surveillance log belonged to someone who still held legitimate, longstanding access to the palace today, someone whose position had only grown more trusted over the intervening years rather than less.I won’t repeat the name here. Rowan hadn’t said it aloud to anyone beyond Lucien and myself, and some part of me under

  • The Luna My Alpha Regrets Losing   Two Different Gifts

    I agreed to let the High Priestess spend time with both children together, but only under conditions I made plain before she set foot in the room.“No rituals,” I told her. “No ceremony, no objects brought in specifically to provoke a reaction. If you want to understand what they’re carrying, you’ll do it by watching them be exactly who they already are. I’ll be present the entire time. If I decide to stop it, it stops.”She agreed without argument, which told me more than any reassurance could have. She understood, better than most people in that palace, exactly how much it had cost me to extend even this much trust.We gathered in the same small sitting room where Kael had first witnessed Kyle’s reaction weeks earlier, nothing staged about it, simply the children’s ordinary afternoon with the High Priestess present as an additional quiet observer rather than an examiner. Kyle built something elaborate out of wooden blocks near the old carved box he’d already singled out twice before

  • The Luna My Alpha Regrets Losing   Kael Sees It Too

    # Chapter 166 – Kael Sees It TooKael had come for one of the supervised evenings we’d settled into over the past months, nothing elaborate, simply an hour or two with the children before their bedtime, the kind of ordinary routine I’d once thought impossible between us and had slowly, carefully, allowed to become real.We were in the smaller sitting room near the nursery, Lyra working through a puzzle on the floor while Kyle told some long, winding story about his lessons that neither Kael nor I entirely followed, when Kyle stopped mid-sentence and reached out to touch the carved wooden box sitting on the side table, one of the old decorative pieces that had sat in that room for longer than either child had been alive.“It’s warm,” he said, the same quiet certainty I’d heard from him weeks earlier in the tutoring room.Kael’s attention sharpened immediately, his gaze moving from Kyle’s face to the box and back again. “Warm how?” he asked, careful to keep his voice light, unremarkable

  • The Luna My Alpha Regrets Losing   Rowan’s Years

    Rowan requested Lucien and me together, which was unusual enough on its own that I knew before he’d said a single word that whatever he’d found wasn’t the kind of thing he wanted to explain twice.He waited until the door had closed fully behind us before he spoke, spreading a collection of documents across the table between us with the particular care of a man who’d spent far too many nights organizing them into an order only he fully understood.“I’ve been cross-referencing palace records against the surveillance patterns we identified after the attacks,” he said. “Trying to establish a timeline. How long this has actually been happening, rather than simply when we first noticed it.”“And?” Lucien asked.“Longer than any of us assumed.” Rowan pulled one page forward, its ink faded enough that I had to lean closer to read it clearly. “This is an administrative log from eleven years ago. Routine palace business, nothing that would have drawn attention at the time. But look at what was

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