THE LYCAN'S SACRIFICE, Fated To The Beast. のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 201 - チャプター 210

Elvanya's PovI told Kael quietly that we needed to tell Tomas and Kael nodded and we walked to the archive entrance where Tomas was standing and Kael said his name and he turned around."Come inside," Kael said. "There is something we need to show you."Tomas looked at both of us and then he came in without asking what it was.Luna and Eldric were standing near the back section of shelving and the document was still on the flat stone surface between them. Tomas walked to where they were standing and he looked at the document and then he looked at Luna."What is this," he said."A list," Luna said. "Names of people who were present at the original boundary construction. People who helped build it.""And," he said."And two of the names on this list have living descendants," she said. "One of them is Aldred."Tomas was quiet."The other one," she said, "is you."He looked at the list.He did not react the way I expected him to react. He did not step back and he did not go pale and he d

Kael’s PovI sat with all of it that evening after the group had settled and the camp was quiet and I tried to put it in order.Not to feel better about it. Just to see it clearly.Elvanya sat across from me and she did not rush me and she did not fill the silence and after a while I started talking out loud because talking out loud helped me see the shape of things more clearly than thinking alone."The Void Court placed the transmissions in the Western Mountains archive," I said. "Long before Veyra was born. It placed them for a specific kind of person to find.""Yes," Elvanya said."Veyra found them," I said. "And Mathe. They followed the reasoning and they reached the conclusion the Void Court needed them to reach and they opened the first crack at the eastern border.""Yes," she said."Now the fragment in Aldred," I said. "It did not place the fragment in Aldred because Aldred was convenient or nearby. It placed it in Aldred because Aldred descends from one of the original bounda

Kael's PovWe reached the capital on the sixth day.Lira met us at the gate and she walked beside me as we came through and she said quietly: "They are still there.""In the archive," I said."In the archive reading room," she said. "They arrived the morning after I sent the bird. They came in through the front entrance in full daylight, signed the visitor record with their own name, went to the reading room, and have been sitting there since. They have not tried to leave. They have not asked for anything. They have just been sitting there reading.""How long," I said."Six days," she said."They have been sitting in my archive reading room for six days," I said."Yes," she said. "My people have checked on them twice daily. They are always in the same chair. Different books each time. They eat what the archive staff bring them and they say thank you and they go back to reading."I looked at her."They are not afraid," I said."Not visibly," she said. "Not even slightly."I went to the

Elvanya's PovI did not sleep well that night.I lay there and I thought about what Serin had said about the school network and I thought about children sitting in classrooms for fifteen years learning a false account of the most important events of their lives and I thought about how you undo something like that and I did not have an answer and that was why I did not sleep well.In the morning I went to Kael and I said: "I need to understand the full shape of the network. Not just what Serin told us. I need to see the actual structure of it. Who funds it now. Who its leadership is. Which teachers came through it and where they are working. Everything.""Yes," he said. "I have been thinking the same thing."We spent the morning going through what Lira's people had been able to gather since we returned. The school network's public records were not difficult to access because the network did not hide. It had been operating openly for twenty years and it was proud of its work and it publ

Elvanya's PovEldric took everything with him when he left that evening.The book. His copies of Veyra's notes. The restricted archive texts he had been working from for months. He took all of it and he went to his room and he closed the door and we did not see him for two days.Kael checked on him once on the first day and came back and said: "He is working. He has food and water. Leave him."I left him.On the morning of the third day he came to us.He came into the room where Kael and I were sitting with Serin going over the list of twelve seeds and he set a single page of notes on the table between us and he sat down and he looked at us both."I need to tell you what I found," he said."Tell us," Kael said."I went through Veyra's evidence," he said. "Not her conclusions. Her evidence. The primary sources she was working from. The data she had gathered over twenty years about the boundary and the pressure on it and the fault lines." He paused. "She was right."Nobody said anything