Semua Bab Academy Of Cursed Hearts : Bab 91 - Bab 100

Chapter Ninety One****Morning drills ended with sweat and silence.Jason found me before I could walk out of the training yard. His eyes were sharp, but a bit worried. “Last night,” he said, voice low, “what really happened?”I exhaled. “Morwen and Kieran tried to summon you. They thought if they controlled you, they could control me.”Kael, who’d been sharpening his dagger nearby, looked up. “They what?”“They built a circle,” I said. “Used blood sigils. Tried to pull you like a puppet.”Kael stood up so fast his blade clattered to the stone. “Let's confront Kieran.”“Not yet,” I said. “He's watching. Waiting for us to react.”Jason’s jaw tightened. “They touched me, Aria. Even for a second… that’s too far.”I nodded. “I know.”Breakfast was tense.We sat at our usual table,me in the middle, Jason on my left, Kael on my right. The air hummed with unease. Students were enjoying their meals and talking with one another.Then Kieran walked in.Smiling like he owned the room.He carried

Chapter Ninety-Three****I met Jason and Kael on my way to the dorm.“You saw him right?” Jason asked.“Yes."Kael crossed his arms. “He’s still going to summon the Watcher?”“He should go ahead,” I said. “It’s already coming.”Kael smiled. “Then Morwen and Kieran are in trouble.”I smiled faintly. “They have no idea.”Deep below, in the catacombs, Morwen finished the final chant.The circle blazed crimson. The ground trembled. Wind howled through the tunnels.Kieran stood at the edge, watching and waiting.“Now,” Morwen breathed. “It comes.”But the presence that rose wasn’t wrathful.It was… quiet.A figure emerged from the dark,not tall, not monstrous, but cloaked in shifting shadows, eyes like twin voids filled with stars.The Hollow Watcher.It turned upward.As if listening to something only it could hear.Then it spoke, a voice like stone grinding against time: “She is already here.”Morwen was angry. “Who?”The Watcher didn’t answer.It simply turned and walked away towards t

Chapter Ninety-Five:****That same night, in Morwen’s chamber.Kieran paced like a caged wolf. Morwen sat rigid in her chair, fingers digging into the arms, eyes sharp with betrayal.Veyran stood by the window, calm as stone, watching the moon like it held answers to her questions.“Explain yourself,” Morwen hissed. “You stood with her instead of standing with us. After everything we planned.”Veyra didn’t turn. “Plans fail when built on sand.”Kieran whirled on her. “You lied to us!”“No,” Veyra said, finally facing them. “I adapted.”She stepped into the candlelight, her iron-beaded braids glinting like blades. “I’ve watched Aria for three days now. Not just her power, but her patterns. She doesn’t react, she anticipates. She didn’t just survive the Veil Chamber tonight, she used it to make us expose ourselves.”Morwen’s eyes narrowed. “So you abandoned us out of fear?”Veyra’s laugh was dry, cold. “Fear? No. Strategy.”She walked to the table, tracing a finger over the map of t

Chapter Ninety-Seven****Morwen and Veyra didn’t believe Kieran, about what he said happened the other night.Of course they didn’t.Morwen never trusts weakness. And Veyra never trusted anything she didn't see with her eyes.So when Kieran told them about the chamber he entered, the hands that dragged, the air that drowned… They called it fear. Delusion. A trick of the mind and much more.So they went to see for themselves.That night,they all crossed the threshold.Morwen and Veyra, with Kieran trailing behind like a ghost who’d already died once.Veyra stopped at the entrance. Smart woman. She didn’t step in. She just watched, arms crossed, eyes sharp as scalpels.Morwen walked right in confidently, because she feels she owns the academy.Fool.She began chanting in Old Veylan,the tongue of ward-breakers. Arrogant. Reckless. She thought her oaths, her bloodline, her position would shield her.The chamber didn’t care at all.The moment her voice hit the third syllable, the shadows

Chapter Ninety-Nine****Rumors spread faster than shadows in this academy.By mid-morning, everyone knew Morwen hadn’t left her chambers in two days. Whispers called her broken and cursed. Some said she’d seen the Hollow Queen herself. Others claimed the mirrors had spoken. None of it mattered anyway,except that it made Veyra restless. And when Veyra grew restless, she set traps.I knew about the trap before I even stepped into the library.The Twin told me."She’ll offer you the truth. Don’t take it"The Twin's words echoed in my head, as I dried my face slowly, watching my reflection settle back into Aria,soft-eyed, quiet, and harmless.Perfect.Veyra found me in the restricted archives just after noon.Behind the third shelf of forbidden grimoires,the one with the cracked floor tile and the lingering scent of burnt sage. It was a place only students with special dispensation could enter. I shouldn’t have been there. But I’d “accidentally” wandered in while chasing a stray cat. Agai