Semua Bab The Luna Surgeon : Bab 21 - Bab 30

Ash dragged the hatch closed just as the mountainside caved in behind them.Dust billowed. Metal screamed.Vault Three was gone.Mira stood at the ridge, blood still pounding in her ears. Echo clung to her leg, eyes wide, her breath shallow. Behind them, Grey helped Liam limp up the rocks, both battered and smoke-streaked.But Mira didn’t move.She couldn’t.Because somewhere in the wreckage below, Luna-22 had vanished. Not dead. Not even wounded. Just gone.“They didn’t wake her,” Mira murmured. “They unleashed her.”Ash coughed behind her. “We underestimated how far the Circle was willing to go. L-22 wasn’t just an upgrade. She was the failsafe.”Grey stepped beside Mira. “Then we find her. And end this.”“No,” Mira said. Her voice was quiet but solid. “We don’t find her.”Everyone turned.“She’ll find me.”A silence fell. Then Echo tugged at her hand. “What does she want?”Mira looked down at the girl who bore her blood, her fear, her hope.“She wants to be the only version of me t

The howl still echoed long after the fog swallowed its source.Mira stood frozen in the circle of stones, feeling the vibration in her bones. Not just a wolf’s call but something older. Twisted. Hungry.Echo clung to her side, eyes wide. “That wasn’t her,” she whispered. “It was worse.”Ash nodded grimly. “L-20… another prototype. They weren’t all built like you, Mira. Some were pure aggression.”Grey scanned the shifting tree line, voice low. “If L-22 is precision, L-20 is chaos.”“They’re releasing them in pairs,” Liam said, fists tightening. “One to hunt. One to destroy.”The wind shifted, carrying the stench of scorched fur and blood. The trees groaned like something massive moved between them.“We can’t fight them both,” Grey muttered.“We’re not here to fight them,” Mira said. “We’re here to find the others.”Ash frowned. “If they haven’t already been wiped out.”The ground trembled again, then a low, rhythmic thud. Footsteps. Heavy. Unnatural.Mira glanced at the map. The next

The dust hadn’t even settled. Mira stumbled as the last of the collapsing cavern sealed behind them, cutting off any path back to the Warden. The ancient voice still echoed in her mind: The true awakening has only begun. They emerged into moonlit air, battered but alive, at the edge of a wide ravine. Grey’s hand found her waist, steadying her. “We’re losing ground, Mira. They’re tightening the circle.” She looked back at Echo and Seventeen, both trembling but conscious. The boy’s golden eyes flicked nervously toward the distant shadows. “They’re not done hunting,” Liam said quietly, scanning the tree line. Ash cursed. “L-22 will regroup. And she won’t underestimate you again.” “No,” Mira said darkly. “But she still doesn’t understand me.” The map pulsed faintly again. The next resonant mark wasn’t far, it was north this time. The terrain was shifting them closer and closer to Ghost Howler territory. Closer to where this arc was always leading: her capture! “We have no

The trees thinned as Mira’s group fled north, the weight of every decision pressing against her ribs like stone. The battle at the ravine left them bruised and bleeding, but not broken. Not yet. And she could feel it, just ahead, another resonant site pulsing faintly beneath her skin like a second heartbeat.Grey’s hand grazed her lower back, a silent tether keeping them connected. "You’re starting to shake again," he whispered."I'm fine," Mira lied.The pull of the Red Moon was growing stronger, clawing at the edges of her mind. She could feel it with every step: her wolf’s instincts fraying, sharpening, urging her toward something ancient and inevitable.Echo stumbled beside her, and Mira reached out, steadying the girl as Seventeen clung to Liam’s side."They’re pushing us where they want us," Ash said darkly, eyes scanning the forest’s edges. "We’re being funneled. The Circle’s design is closing.""They're not even hiding it anymore," Liam muttered. "Every path leads deeper into

The air cracked like thunder.The Red Moon pulsed above, a deep, throbbing crimson that seemed to match Mira’s heartbeat. Her claws dug into the dirt. Her breath came out ragged and feral.She could hear everything.Grey’s voice; urgent. Distant.Echo crying out.Seventeen whispering her name.And L-22’s steps behind her, quiet, confident, like the reaper closing in.“You can’t hold it back forever,” L-22 said. “You were made to fracture.”Mira’s vision blurred with red light as her wolf surged again. Her bones twisted mid-form, caught between control and collapse. The power rushing through her was no longer just hers. It was older. Hungrier.Grey’s hands were on her shoulders, grounding her. “Mira. Look at me.”She tried. But her eyes were shifting too fast: wolf, human, something else entirely.“She’s crossing the resonance limit,” Ash hissed. “She’s going to shatter!”“No,” Grey growled, pulling Mira’s face toward his. “You’re not done. You are not theirs.”Her wolf roared but some