Chapter 80: You Still Moan My Name In Every Sleep II

Chapter 80: You Still Moan My Name In Every Sleep II Aria’s lashes fluttered against her cheeks, sleep - quivering, still tangled in twilight. She lay draped across Eris’s cold body, wrapped in scales of shadow and silver, heart pounding beneath every gasp and sigh. Eris’s fingers drifted slow and deliberate along Aria’s spine, cool enough to startle, soft enough to soothe. She pressed a fingertip into the curve of Aria’s hip — and Aria trembled, spine arching toward the pressure. “You melt so beautifully,” Eris murmured, lips brushing Aria’s shoulder. Her kiss was breathless and cold, trailing across bone before sliding lower. Aria inhaled sharply. Her knees jerked. “Eris —” But before she could continue, another kiss landed behind her collarbone, slow and teasing. Eris moved like water, ice dripping over heat, every flick of her tongue mapped to Aria’s hidden sensitivity. Her teeth grazed over sensitive flesh. Aria moaned into the darkness of the dream, a long, heartbreaking s

Last Updated : 2025-09-18

Chapter 81: I Came In Gold. I’ll Drown In Violet

Chapter 81: I Came In Gold. I’ll Drown In Violet The apartment was dark, lit only by the city bleeding through the cracked blinds. Aria stood barefoot in the kitchen, one hand gripping the cold edge of the countertop, the other curled loosely around a half - full water bottle she hadn’t even opened. Her breathing was steady. Too steady. Like her body was bracing for something it already knew was coming. The clock on the microwave blinked 2:17 AM. The hum of the fridge was the only sound. Her skin still tingled — not from cold, not from heat — but from memory. The kind that started in her chest and spilled downward, coiling in the soft, pulsing place between her thighs. It was residual. Lingering. Like the afterglow of a kiss that never fully ended. She hadn’t slept. Not really. She’d dropped, briefly — a hard slide into dreamspace — but it was getting harder to tell what was real. Dreams weren’t just dreams anymore. They were messages. Gateways. Doors she couldn’t close once open

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Chapter 82: I Came In Gold. I’ll Drown In Violet II

Chapter 82: I Came In Gold. I’ll Drown In Violet II Aria’s breath fogged the glass. The windows were cracked, edges scorched with soot, and the world outside pulsed like a dying heartbeat — red, dark, red again. Somewhere far off, a warning siren stuttered, cutting through the quiet like a blade. She didn’t move. She stood there barefoot, sweat cooling on her spine, heart fluttering in a cage she couldn’t name. Her phone buzzed. A glitchy screen. No signal. But the notification blinked anyway. “open me.” She didn’t remember downloading anything. The battery was nearly dead. Still, she tapped it. The video played on its own. Flickering light. Heavy breathing. A room she half-recognized — scorched stone, black vines crawling the walls. A woman on her knees, shackled at the wrists, dark hair soaked with sweat and something darker. Her voice cracked through the speaker like static. “I wait because I love you,” Eris whispered in the clip, but Aria’s name wasn’t said aloud — just

Last Updated : 2025-09-19

Chapter 83: Her Reflection Blinked First. Then The World Tilted.

Chapter 83: Her Reflection Blinked First. Then The World Tilted. Aria couldn’t sleep. Not really. The blanket was warm. The room was quiet, in that strange, post - collapse kind of way — the quiet of distant groans, wind scraping rusted metal, something moving a few streets over and deciding not to come closer. But her skin buzzed. The kind of electric hum that came from within, under muscle, beneath bone. Her breath felt too loud. Her heartbeat too fast. Across the room, Selene leaned against the window, silhouetted by the fractured moonlight slicing through the broken blinds. Pale skin. Braided hair. Combat boots still laced like she didn’t trust the night. “You feel it too?” Aria asked, voice barely more than a whisper. Selene didn’t turn. “Something’s shifting. The city’s too still.” Aria sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. “You think it’s the pocket space again?” “No. It’s you.” Aria scoffed, but it was soft. “You always say things like that.” “Because they’re true

Last Updated : 2025-09-20

Chapter 84: She Doesn’t See Me, She Sees a Weapon

Chapter 84: She Doesn’t See Me, She Sees a Weapon Aria clicked through the last unread message on her phone — static laced and garbled — but the sender ID popped up as “Unknown”. It was just a looped image: a flicker of red sky over an empty street. No caption. No punctuation. Somehow, it carried threat. She powered off the device. The battery save icon glowed; there’d be no signal within these walls. Still, the message knew. Or maybe it planted something in her: a tremor. She let Selene lead through shattered streets — broken neon signs, rusted bicycles stacked like fallen soldiers, stray cats slinking over shattered mirrors. The city felt hollow, as though everyone had just vanished — but left warp marks in the air. Aria’s hands itched. Her internal pocket dimension hummed faintly behind her sides, a subtle pulse she couldn’t quite ignore. A shift. Tonight’s recharge had felt different — warmer. More urgent. They passed a fire - escape engulfed in vines. Below, someone had scra