All Chapters of ASHES OF THE LUNA QUEEN: Chapter 271 - Chapter 280

The moon bled brighter that night, an open wound in the sky. Lyra moved through the forest like a blade of light cutting through fog.Every step she took burned her footprints into the earth, her power thrumming in tune with the world’s terrified heartbeat.The boy kept pace beside her, his gaze fixed ahead. “She’s near,” he murmured. “I can feel the echo. Dominion’s voice travels in pulses, like a drum.”Lyra’s eyes gleamed silver. “Then we follow the rhythm.”Branches bent away from her as if afraid to touch her light. The air thickened with the scent of rain and smoke.Somewhere ahead, a child’s laughter broke the silence, soft, musical, wrong. Lyra’s hand lifted. “There.”They stepped into a clearing where the sky was unnaturally clear. A small cottage stood alone beneath the bleeding moon. Smoke curled from its chimney; a lantern glowed faintly in the window.And in front of the door sat a little girl, humming. Her hair was white as frost, her skin glowing faintly red beneath the

The scream of the world wasn’t sound, it was memory tearing. Lyra felt it ripple through her bones, through the soil, through the stars themselves.Every god, every mortal, every fragment of creation froze as the universe seemed to inhale. And then, everything remembered.The lake rose into the air, water spiraling into columns of light and shadow. The being within them expanded, vast and formless, until its shape filled the horizon, a living storm of remembrance.The boy’s voice was barely a whisper. “It’s not a god. It’s the Dream before the gods.”Lyra’s light flickered, the weight of it nearly crushing her. “The First Dream…”The being’s many eyes blinked once, galaxies swirling in each. “The children woke, and forgot who sang them to sleep.”Liora clutched Lyra’s hand. “It’s angry.”“No,” Lyra said softly. “It’s grieving.”The being turned its gaze toward her, its voice reverberating through sky and sea. “You built a world that remembers hunger. I gave you silence. You replaced i

The new dawn did not rise, it unfolded. Light stretched over the horizon in layers of gold, silver, and crimson, painting the world as if creation itself were learning to breathe again.The air carried the scent of rain and something older, the perfume of beginnings. Lyra stood on the citadel terrace, eyes fixed on the shape now wandering through the waking mist: Elyndra.The Dream, now flesh. The infinite, now bound. She walked barefoot through the dew, her long hair catching the light of both moons, the silver and the red, like woven threads of opposing wills.Each step she took made flowers bloom, then wither, then bloom again, as though the earth couldn’t decide whether to live or die in her presence.Liora watched from the shadows of a pillar, clutching Lyra’s sleeve. “She doesn’t know how to stop,” the child whispered. Lyra nodded slowly. “Because she’s feeling it all for the first time.”The boy appeared behind them, silent as thought. “And she’s feeling it through you.”Lyra d

The night after Elyndra broke, the world held its breath. The twin moons hung as one in the sky, a single orb of pale rose light, neither wholly silver nor red.Beneath that gentle glow, the gods whispered like frightened children. For the first time since creation began, their maker was sleeping. Lyra stayed by her side.Elyndra lay beneath a canopy of starlight, her hair spilling like liquid light across the marble floor. The pulse of her divinity had softened into something almost human, slow, uncertain, mortal. Every now and then she twitched, murmuring fragments of dreams too fragile to catch.Liora sat cross-legged at her feet, tracing circles in the air that shimmered faintly before fading. “She’s dreaming.”Lyra nodded. “She shouldn’t be able to.”“She wanted to,” the child whispered. “She wanted to know what it felt like to rest.”The boy stood near the doorway, his arms folded. “And if she doesn’t wake?”Lyra looked up at him, exhaustion shadowing her face. “Then the world d

The sky had never been so quiet. Too quiet. Not the peace after a storm, but the silence of something thinking.Lyra stood in the courtyard where Elyndra had been taken, her hair whipped by winds that no longer blew. Liora clung to her leg, trembling, the black-gold flicker still haunting her eyes.The boy paced in sharp, clipped steps. “We have to move. Now. If the Dream fully binds with her”Lyra cut him off, voice raw. “It already has.”Liora whispered, “She’s not gone… I can still feel her.”Lyra knelt in front of the child. “Where?”The girl looked up at the sky, squinting as though searching through layers of reality. “Everywhere.”A cold shiver ran through Lyra.Miren materialized in a ripple of silver smoke, panic sharp in her every movement. “Dreamkeeper, something is happening across the realms. The shrines are waking. The rivers are glowing. Living things are rearranging themselves.”The boy stopped pacing. “Rearranging?”Miren nodded, trembling. “The geography is shifting.