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Chapter 7

Autor: Bubbles
Audrey

Edna crawled to Eugene on her hands and knees and clung to his leg, sobbing uncontrollably. "Eugene, everything I did was for the Flame Pack! For you!"

"I never knew who was sending that intelligence. If I'd known it was Audrey, I would never have taken credit for it, I swear."

Eugene looked down at her, cold and unmoved. "That doesn't excuse lying to me about gathering the intelligence yourself."

Edna choked out, "I stayed by your side for eight years. I raised Hermia like my own child.
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  • The Memory Trial and the Blue Ghost   Chapter 8

    AudreyEugene collapsed to his knees in front of me, his composure finally gone."Why? Why didn't you tell me?"When they threw you into prison and tortured you, why didn't you say a single word?!"You did all of this for us. Why didn't you ever tell us?!"If you had spoken sooner, I would never have listened to Edna or started the Memory Crystal trial. What do I do now? How can I save you? Tell me how to save you!"Did you think I wouldn't believe you? Do you trust me that little?"I raised a blood-streaked hand and gently wiped away his tears. My voice was barely audible."I trust you. I've always trusted you."I just didn't want any of you to spend the rest of your lives feeling guilty. I didn't want you carrying the weight of this past."Mrs. Hayes was good to me. If she were still alive, she wouldn't want to see Edna suffer. So please don't pursue this any further, all right?"Eugene wept. "Other people. It's always other people. Audrey, is there nothing you want to say to me?"My

  • The Memory Trial and the Blue Ghost   Chapter 7

    AudreyEdna crawled to Eugene on her hands and knees and clung to his leg, sobbing uncontrollably. "Eugene, everything I did was for the Flame Pack! For you!""I never knew who was sending that intelligence. If I'd known it was Audrey, I would never have taken credit for it, I swear."Eugene looked down at her, cold and unmoved. "That doesn't excuse lying to me about gathering the intelligence yourself."Edna choked out, "I stayed by your side for eight years. I raised Hermia like my own child. After everything I've done, do I still mean less than a woman who hasn't come back to see you in fifteen years?"Fifteen years, Eugene. Fifteen whole years she stayed away, and you were kept in the dark from beginning to end. Everything she did was for her brother, for the Flame Pack, or for her daughter. Was any of it for you?"Which of us loves you more? Can you really not see it?"The accusation struck Eugene exactly where it hurt. He looked at me, his eyes turbulent with emotion.Hurt. Grief

  • The Memory Trial and the Blue Ghost   Chapter 6

    AudreyThe memory opened with me walking down the main street of the Dark Moon Pack. A name stopped me mid-step."Did you hear? The Flame Pack Alpha's daughter, Hermia, has come down with some strange illness.""What illness?""Scales, growing all over her body. Itching and burning. They say she ran into the Phantom Forest after a fight with Eugene and got bitten by the Seven-Star Serpent."The other speaker sounded delighted at the news. "The Seven-Star Serpent! Then she'll grow scales head to toe until her skin rots off and she dies. Serves her right.""Yeah. Unless she gets the serpent's antivenom. But who would risk their life going after the Seven-Star Serpent for it?"The two of them wandered off, laughing. All the color had drained from my face.A moment later, once I had made up my mind, I sprinted toward the Phantom Forest without hesitation.I staked out the Seven-Star Serpent's favorite hunting ground for three days and three nights before it finally appeared.The serpent wa

  • The Memory Trial and the Blue Ghost   Chapter 5

    AudreyMrs. Hayes's face was unfamiliar to the crowd. No one remembered ever seeing her.Only Edna's reaction was unusual, but every eye was fixed on the vision, and no one noticed.In the memory, I stepped into the cabin and drew a box from inside my cloak.It held no intelligence, no evidence. It held... a stuffed doll.The instant Hermia saw the doll, she cried out, "That's the birthday present I got when I turned eight! It was from you!"Mrs. Hayes took the box and sighed. "You send Hermia a birthday present every year, and she never even knows. It also raises the risk that you'll be exposed. Is it worth it?"I gave her a tired smile. "I can't be there to watch her grow up. As her mother, this is the only thing I can still do for her."Mrs. Hayes was quiet for a moment. "Audrey, I'm a mother too. I understand.""Thank you, Mrs. Hayes," I said gratefully. "You're the only person left in the world who knows I'm undercover. There are so many things I can only say to you. Thank you for

  • The Memory Trial and the Blue Ghost   Chapter 4

    Audrey"So that's the truth of Klein's death!""Did Audrey ever find that damned mole? Who was she?!""Have we been wronging Audrey this whole time?""But if she really was undercover, who was she passing her intelligence to?"Right then, my whole body began to shake, and I couldn't stop the words spilling from my lips. "Medicine... Give me the medicine... the blue medicine..."Eugene looked at me. The hand he had almost reached out went still, and the shock in his eyes curdled into disgust, the same look he gave every Blue Ghost addict.In his eyes, such people were the very definition of weakness and self-ruin. Rats in the gutter. Maggots that never see daylight.The crowd below stopped talking too, watching me with complicated eyes.Pity. Sympathy. Revulsion.Edna sighed. "Audrey lived in the Dark Moon Pack for so long. Picking up some of their vices was bound to happen. But everyone knows that once the Blue Ghost has you, it never lets go, not in this lifetime."Such a pity. In the

  • The Memory Trial and the Blue Ghost   Chapter 3

    AudreyOne voice broke the silence first."No wonder she vanished thirteen years ago! She was sent undercover!"But someone immediately shot back."No. A mission wouldn't take that long. She must have been turned while she was undercover. Why else would she spend all those years in the Dark Moon Pack without sending back a single word? Edna was the one who kept gathering intelligence about Blue Ghost shipments, drastically reducing the amount that reached us."Someone else chimed in at once."Exactly! And Audrey killed Klein. We all know that! The fatal wound on his body was the one she inflicted!"At that, the doubt in their eyes hardened back into hatred.Killing Klein, their beloved former Alpha, was the biggest reason they despised me.But Eugene didn't move. He only stared at me, hard, as if trying to read something in my exhausted, listless eyes.Hermia was looking at me too, visibly shaken. She had never once imagined that her mother might actually love her.A vicious glint flas

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