All Chapters of THE CAPTIVE'S LOVE: Chapter 81 - Chapter 82

Inside the Inner Circle of the Outer Sanctum, the sacred room once reserved solely for silence now raged and trembled.The central flame—usually tranquil, blue-white and unchanging—now roared a deep orange, its whips writhing madly toward the ceiling as if famished and unfed.Enza's gaze stayed on the fire, her voice a low, bitter quiver."It has begun."Calrex, iron-faced and aged, stood up."Too long we have argued. Too long we have allowed emotion cloud reason. The prophecy is unravelling in front of our very eyes, and yet she strays unpunished—with that. that anarchy in her belly."Judge Helix scowled. "You talk as though the child has already wrought havoc.""Have you not felt the shift?" Enza snarled. "The winds screaming through the sanctum spires? The disease spreading in the northern provinces? The portents that seep into our dreams like flame through snow?""She's run," grunted Elder Deyra, her hands shaking against the carved edges of her chair. "Run off into darkness. And