All Chapters of Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

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CHAPTER 121: ONE WEEK AWAY

Rhiannon's POVThe safe house was three hours north of Crescent Moon, in a stretch of forest so old the trees had stopped counting.Darius had found it years ago — or rather, his father had built it and he'd inherited it and never used it for anything, which meant it sat quiet and maintained and exactly right for seven days of being somewhere the packhouse wasn't.We left the morning after the wedding, which meant Soren spent the previous evening making a list of things he needed us to know before we left. The list was long and covered topics including but not limited to: the correct amount of time Marcus was allowed to let him stay up, the location of his backup wooden sword in case of emergency, and his considered opinion on the matter of honey cakes versus other options as a primary breakfast food group.Sera had produced a counter-list, which she called the actual schedule, and presented it to Soren as a fait accompli.He read it with the expression of someone reviewing terms he h

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CHAPTER 122: WHAT NYX KNOWS

Rhiannon's POVShe came to find me the morning after we returned.Not the council chamber — my room, which was Nyx's shorthand for this matters and I want you sitting down. I sat on the window seat and she sat in the chair and the morning light came through the glass and I thought: whatever this is, it isn't bad news. Her face was the face she wore when something was complicated, not when something was wrong."Tell me," I said."How familiar are you with the Primordial Council?""What Caelum told me. What your history lessons covered." I thought back. "Ancient. Pre-Purge. The governing body of Chimera bloodlines before Varic." I paused. "You said they made contact, during the planning for the ritual. That the seals were weakening.""Yes." She looked at her hands. "I didn't tell you everything at the time because you had a ritual to focus on and I didn't want to add to the weight." She looked up. "I'm telling you now because you need to know.""Tell me.""The seals that hold the world'

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CHAPTER 123: MALACHAR AND ISOLDE

Rhiannon's POVHe came back twice more before the end of the six months.The first time was with Caelum, two weeks after the wedding, to finalise the stasis arrangements with the Council's representative — an ancient creature that arrived and departed within a single night and communicated in a register so far above ordinary conversation that Nyx translated for the rest of us in real-time.The second time Malachar came alone.He appeared at the packhouse gate on a Thursday evening with the manner of someone who has decided to do something and has not entirely worked out what it is yet. The gate guard, who was now used to him, let him through without drama.I found him in the entrance hall.He was looking at the wall.We'd put things on the wall since the wedding — not trophies, not battle honours. Just things. A drawing Soren had made of the family with everyone in it: me, Darius, Soren, Marcus, Sera, Nyx, Caelum, a shape that was probably the baby indicated by an arrow and the word s

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CHAPTER 124: THE PACK IN WINTER

Darius's POVWinter arrived the way it arrived in mountain territories — overnight, definitively, without the gradual negotiation of lower elevations.One morning the yard was autumn. The next it was white.Soren's response to first snow was immediate and comprehensive: he was outside before anyone had finished breakfast, in wolf pup form for approximately thirty seconds to assess it properly, then back to human form and back outside to assess it with his hands, a more thorough methodology. He brought samples inside. Showed them to Caelum, who confirmed that snow had existed for the entirety of his four-century awareness. This appeared to be the correct answer.The pack moved into winter in the way packs in established territories moved into winter — with the competence of people who had done it before and the particular warmth of a community that was, this year, doing it with something resolved that hadn't been resolved in a long time.The fracture was not gone. I want to be honest a

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CHAPTER 125:THE GOODBYE

Rhiannon's POVThe stasis chamber was in the old records hall.The Council's representative had specified the requirements — dimensions, material, the particular configuration of the anchor points — and Sera had overseen the construction with the same systematic attention she brought to everything, while simultaneously not looking at it more than necessary, which was the compromise she'd reached with herself about a thing she didn't want to happen that was going to happen anyway.It was finished in April.The departure was set for the following Thursday. Not a dramatic date — just the one the Council had confirmed was correct for the alignment of the seals. The universe, as Nyx observed, did not organise itself around convenient narrative moments.The week before was ordinary on the outside and enormous underneath.Nyx spent it finishing the documentation she'd been building for months — complete records of Soren's training, his development, the modifications she'd made to standard Ch

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CHAPTER 126: LYRA AND KAEL

Rhiannon's POVThey arrived in May, in the early morning, in the packhouse room that had been prepared for them since February.It was not uncomplicated. Twin pregnancies of hybrid Chimera bloodlines, as Moira had noted approximately once a week since January, had no precedent she could reference. She had managed with the combination of thirty years of healing experience and the particular competence of someone who knows how to be steady when others need steadiness.Darius was there.This was the thing I kept returning to in the weeks after — that he was there, in the room, present for every part of it, saying exactly the right things and mostly being quiet and holding my hand when holding my hand was what the moment required. Not fixing. Not managing. Just there.In the cave, it had been Nyx's hands and my own will and the dark.Now: daylight, a room with a fire, my husband beside me, and the knowledge that whatever this cost physically, I was not spending it alone.Lyra arrived firs

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CHAPTER 127: THE FIRST YEAR

Rhiannon's POVThe twins were three months old when Lyra first did it.We were at breakfast — the particular organised chaos of a meal with an infant on each side and Soren across the table narrating something that had happened in yesterday's training with the detail of a field report. Darius was pouring tea. I was attempting to eat with one hand while Kael held the other with the grip he'd had since birth, the grip that said: I know you're here, I'm confirming it.Lyra, in the seat arrangement Sera had engineered with the same systematic attention she brought to everything, looked at the window.Then she said: "Dog."We all stopped.She was looking at the window. Outside the window, crossing the training yard, was one of the pack's border wolves in full shift — a large grey animal moving at a patrol trot."Dog," Lyra said again, with satisfaction."Wolf," Soren said. He'd turned to look at the yard. "That's a wolf."Lyra considered this. "Dog," she said, with the finality of someone

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CHAPTER 128: LYRA'S VISIONS

Rhiannon's POVThe drawings started when she was two.Not unusual — Soren had drawn at two, large silver loops he called wolves and people both, undifferentiated but earnest. Lyra's drawings were different from the beginning. Precise. She held the crayon with a grip that shouldn't have been possible at two and produced shapes that were recognisably shapes, and the shapes meant something.The seals.Seven of them. Always seven. Arranged in the same pattern each time — a configuration that I didn't recognise until I showed it to Sera, who had studied the Council's documentation extensively and went very still when she looked at the drawing."That's the configuration," she said."Of what?""Of the seals. The seven anchors." She held the drawing closer. "This is exact. I've seen the Council's diagram once, briefly, before it was removed from the records. This is exact." She looked at Lyra, who was currently eating a crayon she'd decided was no longer needed for drawing. "Where did she see

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CHAPTER 129: KAEL'S GIFT

Darius's POVKael's power announced itself differently.Not in drawings or visions or the precise correction of training forms. It announced itself in the way the room changed when he walked into it.Subtle, at first. The particular quality of attention that gathered around him — people looking toward him without deciding to, wolves tracking his movement through the yard with the instinctive awareness they reserved for things their bodies understood to be significant. I noticed it before I named it. Then I named it.Command.Not Alpha authority — that was something specific to the Nightshade bloodline, something I'd been born with and learned to use. This was different. Older. The kind of pull that existed before pack structures gave it names, before the word Alpha existed to describe it. The ancient version of the thing.He was twenty months old the first time it happened deliberately.Thorne was running a patrol drill in the training yard — twelve warriors, experienced, focused. Kae

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CHAPTER 130: SOREN AT SEVEN

Rhiannon's POVHe turned seven in the autumn, in the same crisp morning light as his fourth birthday, but different in every other way.No silver explosion. No waking me before dawn to announce his age. He came downstairs at his usual time, ate his breakfast at his usual pace, and when I said "happy birthday" he said "thank you" and then: "I want to talk to you about something."This was new. Seven-year-old Soren was different from five-year-old Soren, which had been different from four-year-old Soren, and I was learning — had been learning since the fortress, since before — that the way to know him was to let him show me who he was becoming rather than holding him to who he'd been."Talk," I said.He looked at his hands. The hands that had held a shimmer on a staircase when he was four. That had shown Malachar a wooden sword. That were now larger, more controlled, the hands of a child who had been training seriously for three years."I want to go somewhere," he said. "To the Forbidde

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