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Chapter 30: Night Whispers and Names Lost

Author: LJ Black
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-01 20:08:42

I don’t expect to sleep—not with the fever the stranger brought still clinging to my skin and the stranger’s warnings echoing like a curse. But night is a thief, and exhaustion is its ally. Somewhere between the scratch of branches against the window and the distant crack of a twig in the woods, I finally drift.

It’s not a gentle sleep. I dream in fragments at first—slippery, shifting, all edges and shadows.

A woman’s voice calling my name, only not my name.

Ash in the air, smoke pressing against my skin.

The sound of wolves, howling, their cries twisting the night until it splinters.

And then, all at once, I am a child—small, barefoot, and wild. I can smell the rich loam of the forest floor, the sweet rot of autumn leaves, the sharp, acrid scent of fear. My heart hammers against my ribs, but it’s not my own panic—it’s hers, the woman whose arms hold me close. My mother. Fyre.

She’s not how I imagined her—not a storybook witch or a monster, but fierce and beautiful, hair the color of
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