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Chapter 151

Kael's Pov The first family arrived from the Eastern Isles on a clear morning fourteen days after I sent the envoys and Lira came to tell me a ship had come into the harbor with three passengers and I went to the dock to meet them.The boy's name was Kieran and he was four years old but he had the posture of someone who had spent time training for something. He walked at his father's side and watched everything around him with careful dark eyes and when he looked at me he did not look away when I looked back.His mark was on his chest and you could see the edge of it above his collar even though he was dressed and it gave off a faint warm glow in the shadow of the dock awning.His father was a fisherman named Tomas who looked like he had not slept well in months. He shook my hand and said "My son is a good boy" before he said anything else and I understood exactly what he was asking without him having to ask it."We are g

Chapter 152

Elvanya's Pov Eldric asked to speak with Kael and me alone and he said it quietly and without other people around which was how I knew before we sat down that whatever he had found was not something small.We met in the archive room in the early morning and Eldric put a very old text on the table between us. Old enough that it was not paper. It was something between leather and stone and the writing on it was in a script I did not recognize."I have been translating this for three days," he said. "I wanted to be certain before I brought it to you.""What is it," Kael said."A prophecy," Eldric said. "Written in a script that predates every kingdom I have records for. I found it in the restricted section sealed with wards I had to work through carefully. Someone put this here a very long time ago and made sure it would survive.""What does it say," I said.Eldric looked at his notes. "I will give you

Chapter 153

Elvanya's Pov I had not prayed since before I died.When I was a goddess prayer was something people gave to me and I had never been on the receiving end of it. After my resurrection I was mortal and the goddess I had served was above me but I had not gone to her with anything because asking from the divine felt strange coming from someone who used to be divine herself.That was before Luna.I waited until the palace was quiet and Kael was in his study and Luna was asleep. Then I went to the small room at the end of our corridor that had a window facing the sky and I sat on the floor and I asked.I did not ask elegantly. I did not have the right words and I had been mortal long enough that whatever instincts I once had were gone. So I said it the way you say something to someone you are not sure is listening."I know what Luna is," I said. "I know what she was made for. I know the prophecy and I know the

Chapter 154

Kael's PovThe report came on a Wednesday from the northern territory commander and it said that a town called Harrow's Gate was gone.Not burned or attacked. Gone. The commander described arriving at the location where the town had been and finding the buildings standing and the roads intact and nothing else. No sound that living things make. Just the physical structures of a town sitting in complete silence.He described a place in the air about half a mile outside the town where reality looked wrong. Like a tear in cloth but the cloth was the air itself and through the tear there was nothing.The absence of anything.I sent verification riders and they came back with the same report.I sent Eldric north before they came back because I already knew what it was.His assessment arrived by fast rider two days later. A Void breach. Reality had been torn in the location where the Old Guard's main w

Chapter 155

Elvanya's Pov Kael had asked me not to come and I had listened to his reasons and understood all of them and I had gotten into the travel party at dawn anyway.He did not argue with me. We both knew what the argument would have been and we both knew I had already decided before he finished making it.The breach was visible from two miles away. Not because of what it was but because of what it was not. A section of sky and land where nothing was right. Where the light stopped behaving the way light should behave and the air at the edges of it moved at angles that did not make sense. The tear in the air was about two miles across and through it there was nothing. Just the lack of what should be there.Void creatures were moving out from it in every direction and the ground where they had passed was silent. Not just quiet. Silent in a way that felt wrong in the chest when you stood near it.We stopped the h

Chapter 156

Kael’s PovEldric did not come back from the breach site until well after midnight.I was still awake when he came into the camp and sat down beside the fire and did not say anything for a while. He sat with his hands around a cup of water and stared at the ground and I gave him time because whatever he had seen was still sitting with him and pushing would not help."Take your time," I said.He nodded and did not move for another few minutes and then he looked up."When I was sealing the last part of the breach," he said. "Before it closed completely. There was a moment when I could see through it.""Through to what," I said."To the other side," he said. "To whatever space the Void Court exists in."He stopped again."Tell me what you saw," I said."It is not a place," he said. "There is no way to describe it as a place because a place has qualities and this had none.

Chapter 157

Elvanya’s PovWe came home from the northern territory and the preparation started the next day.Kael sent warnings to every nation we had contact with and the messages were direct. Not diplomatic language designed to soften the reality. He wrote them himself and he told me what he had written before he sent them."I told them exactly what happened at Harrow's Gate," he said. "The number. What the creatures are. What weapons can and cannot do. What the divine children can do. All of it.""Some of them will not believe it," I said."Some of them will not," he said. "But they will have the information and what they do with it is their choice. I am not going to soften it and have them arrive unprepared."Eldric started the new training the morning after we returned. The session that first morning was different in a way you could feel in the room."What we have been doing was preparation," he told t

Chapter 158

Luna’s PovI had been thinking about it for three weeks before I said anything to my mother.I knew what I knew because the goddess had shown me in the same kind of dream she had shown my mother. Not everything. Not all at once. But enough. Enough to understand that the four of us combined were not certain to be enough. That the Void Court had been learning and the breach had been a measurement and it had measured us and what it found was close to what it needed to push through.Not a guarantee that we would fail. But not a guarantee that we would win.And there was another way.I sat with it for three weeks and I turned it over from every direction I could and I looked at it honestly because looking at it honestly was the only thing that made sense. The goddess had shown me the option the same way you show someone a door. Not telling them to walk through. Just showing them it was there.The option was this. I c

Chapter 159

Elvanya's Pov I held my daughter in the garden while I found the answer.It did not take a long time because the answer was in me before she finished asking. I had known what I would say before she got to the end of it. The knowing had been there the whole time she was talking and I had kept my face steady and listened to all of it because she deserved to be heard completely."No," I said. "Luna you will not sacrifice yourself. We are going to find another way."She pulled back a little to look at me."We do not know there is another way," she said."I know," I said. "We are going to find one anyway.""Mama the math says," she started."I know what the math says," I said. "I heard you. And we are still going to find another way."She looked at me for a moment and something in her face changed and she leaned back against my shoulder and she cried. Not the brief kind of cryi

Chapter 160

Kael's PovKing Aldred of Aldoria arrived on a Tuesday morning with thirty thousand soldiers and no ceremony.He rode to the main gate himself and I met him there and we shook hands and he looked at the city around us and he said "I have been reading your reports for three weeks. I brought everyone I could.""Thank you," I said."Do not thank me yet," he said. "I brought them because the alternative is the Void Court consuming Aldoria while I am sitting in my hall. This is self-interest as much as anything.""Self-interest that puts thirty thousand soldiers in my courtyard," I said. "I will take it."He laughed once and we went inside and I showed him what we had been building.The Eastern Isles ships came into harbor four days after Aldred. Twelve ships carrying soldiers and the six Sun Temple priests who served as advisors and protectors to Kieran. Tomas stood at the dock and watched the ships come

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