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Chapter 35
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2026-08-12 03:58:54
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Three days after the birth, Cole's father insists on sending us home in a proper carriage instead of on foot, and I'm too tired and too grateful to argue with him about it."You're not walking three days with a newborn," he says, already directing his people to prepare it, an old habit of command resurfacing in service of something that finally matters. "Take the carriage. Take a driver who knows the roads. I won't hear otherwise."Cole watches his father organize the departure with an expression I can't quite read — not full trust yet, but something warmer than suspicion, the particular careful hope of a son deciding, in real time, how much space to leave open for a relationship still finding its shape."You'll write," his father says, not quite a question, as we're loading the last of our things."I'll write," Cole confirms. "Not often, not right away. But I will.""That's more than I let myself hope for, three days ago." His father's v
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"One more push. I know you're tired. One more."Nadia's voice cuts through the exhaustion like the only solid thing left in the room, and I find something in me I didn't know was still there, some last reserve I dig into because there isn't another option, because stopping isn't a choice anymore.Six hours. Six hours of pain that comes in waves I've stopped being able to count, of Sarah's hand never once letting go of mine even when my grip must have hurt her, of the healer's assistant's calm, steady voice cutting through moments when panic wants to take over instead. Somewhere in the third hour I remember thinking, absurdly, of Renata's voice telling me to breathe through a training drill months ago — the same lesson, it turns out, applies to almost everything that hurts enough to make you forget how."You're doing this," Sarah says, close to my ear. "You're already doing it. Just finish it."I push. Everything narrows to that single point of effort, the whole world reduced to this o
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Pain rips through my lower back hard enough to wake me from a dead sleep, and I'm sitting upright before I've even fully opened my eyes, one hand already pressed to my stomach."Sarah." My voice comes out sharper than I mean it to. "Sarah, wake up."She's up instantly, the way she's been trained to be up instantly for months now, already moving toward me before her eyes have fully adjusted to the dark."What's wrong?""I don't know. It's probably nothing. It's probably just—" Another wave hits, lower and tighter than the first, and I grip the edge of the bed hard enough that my knuckles go white. "That's not nothing."Nadia's at the door within seconds, alert instantly, and within a minute the whole room is awake and moving — Sarah at my side, Nadia already assessing, Cole pulling on clothes in the doorway, his own crisis with his father forgotten entirely in the face of this new one."How far apart," Nadia asks, crouching level with me, voice steady in a way that helps me breathe thr
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Cole's father invites us to stay the night, which surprises all of us more than the invitation itself probably should, given how carefully he's tried to signal a different kind of household than the one Cole remembers."You don't have to decide anything tonight," he tells Cole, and there's something almost pleading underneath the careful composure, a father trying, visibly, not to push in the exact way that drove his son away in the first place. "Stay. Eat something that isn't camp food. Let your people rest properly before whatever you decide to do next."Cole looks to the three of us, an unspoken question, and I find myself nodding before Sarah or Nadia can answer, some instinct telling me this matters more than exhaustion or caution tonight.The room they give us is larger than anything at the garage, comfortable in a way that feels almost strange after months of cots and shared space, and Sarah takes one look at it before setting her pack down with a w
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Ashwood territory announces itself before we ever cross into it, the trees changing character somehow, more manicured, more deliberate, the whole landscape carrying the particular order of a place that's been shaped by someone who values control."It always looked like this," Cole says, noticing me notice. "Even as a kid I thought it was strange, how tidy everything was. Like the whole territory was holding its breath, waiting to be inspected."Sarah walks a half-step ahead of the rest of us without seeming to notice she's doing it, old instinct putting her between Cole and whatever's coming even here, this far from any danger we can actually name. Nadia's quieter than usual, taking in the landscape with the particular attention of someone cataloging exits without meaning to.We're stopped at the border within the hour, not aggressively, but efficiently, two guards falling into step around us with the particular practiced neutrality of men who've been told exactly how to handle an une
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We leave at first light, the four of us, packs light but thorough, the whole rest of the pack gathered at the bay door to see us off like it's a departure that matters more than the ordinary comings and goings this garage has grown used to. Piper hugs me first, unexpectedly fierce for someone who used to flinch at unexpected touch, and Theo and Marsh both offer the same gruff, affectionate nod they give each other before any risk, like they've folded me into whatever silent language brothers use to say things they don't have words for. Marcus kisses my forehead before I go, careful, asking permission with the gesture the way he's learned to ask permission for everything now, and I let him, surprising myself a little with how natural it feels. "Be careful," he says. "Not for my sake. For yours. For the baby's." "I will." "I mean it, Ava. If anything feels wrong, anything at all, you turn back, no matter how far you've gotten or how close you are. Promise me that much." "I promise
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