Semua Bab THE LYCAN'S SACRIFICE, Fated To The Beast. : Bab 161 - Bab 170

Kael's PovEldric set the map on the table at the morning briefing and everyone in the room went quiet.It was a large map of the known world and he had marked eleven locations in red and drawn lines between them showing how they connected and the lines were not random. They followed paths through the places where the Old Guard had fought longest and where the Changelings had been embedded deepest and where the most people had suffered over the longest periods of time."Fault lines," Eldric said. "Locations where reality is weakest because of sustained suffering concentrated in one place over many years. The Changelings were not just harvesting suffering. They were choosing where to harvest it. Strategically. The locations they selected correspond almost exactly to the points where the boundary between the mortal world and the Void Court's space is thinnest.""How thin," I said."Thin enough for a breach to open without th

Luna's Pov They moved us inside after that. Eldric and both my parents and the elder from the Southern Wastes and Sera who had recovered faster than I had and was sitting beside me with both hands wrapped around a cup of warm water.Everyone was looking at me."Tell us exactly what you heard," Eldric said. "Word for word if you can.""It was not words exactly," I said. "It was more like knowing. The way you know something in a dream. You understand it without someone saying it.""But you understood it clearly," Eldric said."Yes," I said."Then tell us what you understood," he said.I had been organizing it in my head since I came back around and I told it the way I had organized it."It was not a threat," I said first because that was the part that had shaken me most. "I expected a threat. It was not. It was an offer."My parents were very still."It

Elvanya's Pov Kieran did not cry.He went very still. He was standing in the doorway of the war room and Tomas turned and saw him and neither of them said anything for a moment and then Tomas crossed the room and picked up his son and held him and Kieran put his arms around his father's neck and that was all.Kael looked at me and I looked at him and we both stepped back and gave them the room.I waited in the corridor outside and after a while Tomas came out carrying Kieran and he said he was going to take him somewhere quiet and I said yes and I watched them go.I found Luna in the practice room and I told her what had happened.She listened to all of it and she did not ask questions. She set down what she was holding and she said "where is he" and I told her and she went.I followed at a distance. Tomas had taken Kieran to a small room near the garden that got afternoon light and when Luna arrived

Elvanya’s PovEldric crouched in front of the children and he took out the instruments he carried on a cord around his neck and he moved them through the air around Luna and Kieran slowly and methodically.He was quiet for a long time."Eldric," I said."I need a minute," he said.He kept working with the instruments and then he sat back on his heels and he looked at his readings and then he looked at the two children sitting on the floor and he looked at the readings again."Tell us," Kael said."When their aspects locked together," Eldric said slowly. "When the lock happened and the room shook. That was not an uncontrolled energy discharge.""What was it," I said."It was a resonance state," Eldric said. "A full resonance state between two aspects."He looked at us and I could tell from his face that he was working out how to say the next thing."The ancie

Elvanya’s PovThe breach outside the gate began consuming the outer district within the first hour.It did not move at a steady pace. It expanded in surges. Quiet for twenty minutes and then a pulse and the edge of the consumed area moved outward by another thirty feet and more of the outer district went silent.Lira had the evacuation running before Kael finished issuing orders. She did not wait to be told. She had her people moving within minutes of the breach appearing and by the time Kael called the war council the outer districts were already emptying.But the breach was faster than the evacuation.I stood on the inner wall and I watched the army hold the perimeter and I watched the perimeter fail. Not because the soldiers were not doing their jobs. Because the Void creatures that came through the breach could not be stopped by swords and spears and anything that got within range of the creatures simply stopped.