Todos os capítulos de THE LUNA'S RETURN FROM EXILE: Capítulo 111 - Capítulo 120

CHAPTER 111: THE BROTHER AUREN DOESN'T SPEAK OFSELENE'S POV I find him on the roof of the settlement's old records building, the same place he's taken to sitting whenever he needs to think through something particularly heavy, and I settle beside him without waiting for an invitation, decades of watching my mother teach me exactly when someone needs company instead of space."You've been quiet since the meeting," I say, watching the same stars he's apparently been studying for the better part of an hour now. "More than usual, I mean.""I have a lot to think through," he says, and I hear something careful in his voice, the particular tone he uses when he's deciding how much to actually share."About the wards?" I ask. "Or about whoever's recruiting Corvinus remnants with promises of true power?"He's quiet for a long moment, and I watch him work through some internal calculation before finally speaking."His name is Malphas,

CHAPTER 113: FAMILIAR ENEMIESDANTE’S POV I spend three days combing through whatever evidence remains at the hollowed settlement, and by the time I finally find something concrete, exhaustion has settled into my bones so completely I almost miss its significance entirely."This," I say, spreading fragments of encrypted communication across the table where Isolde, Sera, and Auren have gathered, "was recovered from a burned structure near the settlement's edge. Someone tried to destroy it before leaving, but they weren't thorough enough."Sera leans forward, decades of experience reading exactly this kind of coded correspondence immediately sharpening her attention."I recognize this cipher," she says slowly, and I watch old memory crossing her features, something I haven't seen from her in years. "Dante, this is Corvinus encryption. The same pattern they used decades ago, before we thought we'd fully dismantled their entire network."

CHAPTER 116: A NEW TASK FORCEThe Council chamber felt different than it had during any previous session Mira could remember, tension replaced by something closer to grim resolve now that Malphas's broadcast had stripped away any remaining illusion that this crisis might resolve itself quietly. Corran sat at the head of the assembled table, and for the first time since Auren's arrival, Mira watched him address the gathered councilors without a trace of his earlier skepticism."We need a coordinated response," Corran said. "Not committees. Not endless debate. A task force with actual authority to act.""I agree completely," Mira said, feeling something like relief that the argument she'd expected to fight for was apparently already won by circumstances none of them had wanted. "But authority means nothing without the right people actually holding it.""Which is precisely what we're here to decide," Corran said, gesturing toward the map spread acros

CHAPTER 118: A DISTANT COUSINThe address Isolde had traced led to a farmhouse tucked into hills on the far side of the ocean, isolated enough that the team's arrival sent birds scattering from every tree along the winding dirt road leading up to it. Mira watched Auren's expression shift the closer they came, something between hope and old grief crossing his features as he studied the property with obvious recognition."You've been here before," she said."Decades ago," Auren admitted. "There was a small Solarii enclave in this region once. I assumed it had died out completely, the way so much of my people eventually did."They found the young man working in a garden behind the farmhouse, and Selene felt the same warm resonance she'd noticed around Auren the moment they came within sight of him, unmistakable now that she'd learned to recognize it properly."Solarii," she said quietly, and Auren nodded, already moving toward the fence line

CHAPTER 120: WHAT SELENE FEARSElric found his daughter sitting alone on the farmhouse roof three nights after the ambush, exactly where he'd found her countless times across her extraordinary life, and he climbed up beside her without needing an invitation, the same way he had every other time she'd retreated to this particular spot to think."Elara says your shoulder should heal completely within another week," he said, settling into the familiar space beside her."It's not the shoulder keeping me up here," Selene said, and Elric heard something in her voice that made him set aside every practical concern about wards and Corvinus moles and simply listen instead."What is it then?" he asked gently.Selene was quiet for a long moment, staring out at the same stars she'd apparently been studying since he arrived, and Elric waited, decades of parenting having taught him exactly when patience served his daughter better than pressing for answers too quickly."I almost didn't make it in ti