All Chapters of Rejected by the lycan king: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

The Grove was quiet again.But not in the way it once was not the silence of fear or mourning.This silence pulsed with presence.Like the land itself was holding its breath… not to hide, but to listen.Elira had relit her thread. Arlen had returned. And the Zero Gate that unmaking place was now sealed by forgetting itself.But a strange feeling lingered in the air.Not peace.Not warning.Just… waiting.1. The Hollow SkyThat night, the sky turned violet.Not in streaks.All of it as if someone had turned the heavens inside out.Threadwalkers gathered in the Grove to watch.Some trembled. Others whispered that it was a blessing.But Dahlia said only one thing:“The Gates aren’t done.”She was right.That night, every sigil across Duskfall burned gold.Not painfully.Not dangerously.But visibly.It was like the Spiral itself was waking up calling not just to the chosen… but to everyone.2. A Spiral on Every SkinThe next morning, Seris came running into the Spiral Library.“They’

The Grove didn’t sleep for three days.Not from fear.From awakening.Something had shifted since Veylar’s presence vanished like smoke not just in the Grove, but in us.People wept openly for memories long buried.Keepers who once clung to control now stood in circles of silence, hands open, accepting truths they once denied.Even the Spiral Tree seemed to hum with a gentler rhythm.Like it had let out a long-held breath.Mira spent each morning tracing her new silver violet thread into fresh bark not burning it, not carving.Coaxing.1. Letters from the OuterlandsDahlia approached me with a scroll tied in blue ribbon.“This arrived through the North Flame Line,” she said. “It’s from the Outerlands the Spiral exiles.”My heart tightened.The exiles had been cast out after the Fourth Collapse some were Keepers who broke Oaths, others civilians who refused Spiral rule.We hadn’t heard from them in a decade.I unrolled the parchment and read:“The silver spiral burns even here.We r

When the shard shattered, something inside me did too.Not pain.Not fear.Just... silence.Like a page turning in a book I didn’t know I was writing.1. The Path BackWe left the Ashroot Basin just after dawn.No one spoke at first. The wind in the trees said enough. It wasn’t sorrow that clung to us it was reverence. Like we’d stepped too close to something sacred. Something meant to be watched, not touched.Mira walked ahead of us, quiet, her silver flame dim. It pulsed like a heartbeat slowed, like even it didn’t know what to feel.Rafael walked beside me. His knuckles were raw from gripping his blade too tight, not battle. “Do you think we’ve woken something we weren’t meant to?” he asked.“No,” I answered after a moment. “I think we’ve remembered something we tried to forget.”Behind us, the basin was already fading from view. The forest was reclaiming it as if the Spiral itself had exhaled and let the earth close around the truth again.But it wasn’t buried.Not anymore.2.

Peace returned to the Grove in pieces.Not like a storm passing and leaving calm behind but like a shattered window slowly being put back together, each shard humming with a memory too sharp to touch.Mira had not spoken about the black spiral’s song since the night we sealed Feron away. She went back to her flame meditations, but she no longer closed her eyes while doing them. It was as if she feared that whatever lived in the shadows of her thoughts might return the moment she let her guard down.Rafael, too, had grown quieter. He carved less, walked more. He began inspecting the outer walls of the Grove like a soldier waiting for a siege he couldn’t name.And me?I kept dreaming of the black leaf.1. The Weight of a Falling ThingIt had fallen like no Spiral mark ever had.Straight down, soft as a feather, heavy as a truth.Dahlia had recovered it from the base of the Spiral Tree before it could touch the earth. “It shouldn’t exist,” she whispered. “There’s no recorded instance of

There are two ways for a world to fall:One is loud fire, war, screaming skies.The other is quiet a single choice whispered in too many ears.The Spiral Grove had not burned. Not yet.But something deeper had split, and there was no stitching it back.1. The Line Across the FlameThe message had come without voice, without flame and yet, all felt it:“Return or Remain.”The Grove reacted like a body struck by lightning.Some wept. Some laughed. Some simply walked.Fifty more Spiral bearers left the northern Grove that morning and joined Elin’s new settlement beneath the Hollow cliffs. Some carried journals. Others brought woven flame threads and dropped them at my feet before departing as if to say:This is no longer my fire.Rafael watched them from the high wall, jaw tight.“They’re building something down there,” he muttered.“I know,” I said.“They’re not calling it a rebellion.”I nodded. “That’s because it’s not one.”He turned to me. “Then what is it?”I looked toward the