Chapter 11 – The Reckoning Council (Aeryn)

The MessengerBefore dawn, a hawk found us.It wasn’t a wild one. Its leg bore a silver tag etched with the Frostfang crest. It landed near the fire, eyes sharp, unmoving until I approached. He removed the message with careful fingers.Kaela watched as his jaw tensed. “What does it say?” I handed it to her.The parchment bore only two lines, scrawled in a rushed, unfamiliar hand:"The council summoned early. Alliance broken. She knows."Beneath it, one symbol: the mark of the Myras Blades — elite spies of my clan. I looked at Kaela and her face was white as she said, “Your stepmother.”“She’s moved against the summit,” I said, voice flat. “And if she knows about us…”“She’ll twist it. Frame it as betrayal. Leverage it.”I rose; his body coiled like a wolf scenting blood. “We need to get back to Veyra. Now.”Kaela stood, already pulling her shirt over her head then her pants. “They’ll be watching the city gates.”“Then we don’t go through the gates.” I replied with a smirk, sharp and

Chapter 12 – The Blade That Remembers (Kaela)

The moon was full again — its light cast upon the world with a clarity that seemed too pure, too perfect for the danger that lay ahead.We had been traveling for days, the weight of our shared secret pushing them deeper into the wilderness where no one could find them. The council’s verdict hung over them like a dark storm cloud, and the first assassin was already in motion. But, amid all the chaos, a new bond was forming between them one that had nothing to do with politics or prophecy. It was trust.I had never expected to feel this deeply for anyone, let alone someone like Aeryn someone who was both the product of a bloodline she’d spent her whole life raised to fear, and the only person she could imagine standing by her side in the trials ahead.As the evening stretched on, they camped near a remote cave beneath a jagged ridge. The wind howled outside, but the fire inside burned steadily and warm. The quiet between them was unlike any they’d shared before a soft, unspoken understa

Chapter 13 The Blade's Edge (Kaela)

The mountains loomed tall, silent, and unforgiving as the storm raged around them. Snow stung my cheeks, and the cold bit through my layers, but it was nothing compared to the cold weight of the assassin’s pursuit. We were being hunted, not just by a blade, but by their own bloodlines, by the bond they could not escape.We travelled for hours, barely speaking, only the crunch of our footsteps and the howl of the wind filling the space between us. I could feel the tension in the air, the unspoken fear that clung to them both. The assassin was close. I knew it in the pit of my stomach. But I also knew that whatever came next, it would change everything.The fire we had kindled in each other during our time together burned bright, but it had become something more dangerous. Every glance they exchanged now seemed to carry more weight, every touch more charged with a hunger neither of them could deny.Aeryn’s presence beside me was both comfort and a constant reminder of the peril they fac

Alle Kapitel von The Hallow Crown: Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 13

Chapter 11 – The Reckoning Council (Aeryn)

Chapter 12 – The Blade That Remembers (Kaela)

Chapter 13 The Blade's Edge (Kaela)