Todos os capítulos de THE OMEGA'S VOW: Capítulo 81 - Capítulo 86

~ AELINDRA ~"What is that," Kael said."Give me a second.""We don't have a second.""Then give me half of one." I held up a hand, listening past the wind, past twenty people's breathing, for anything that would tell me the horn wasn't about to sound again.Nothing came. Not yet.Rhosyn had gone rigid beside me, one hand fisted in my sleeve hard enough to hurt."That's the sound," she said. "Aelindra, that's the sound from before. From when they took us.""I know.""You know what it is?" Kael's voice had dropped low, controlled, the same tone he probably used on Enforcers right before he needed them to move fast without panicking."I know what it did the last time I heard it," I said. "Which was the Hollowing."That landed the way I expected it to. Silence, sharp and complete, even Gideon's ragged breathing seeming to pause for a beat."Explain," Kael said. "Fast.""The old packs used it to coordinate. A signal built to carry across long distances, through terrain, in the dark. When

AELINDRA POV"Fire," Tate barked, terror sharpening his voice into something almost unrecognizable, and both Enforcers opened up before anyone gave the order, because there was no Kael here to give it and somebody had to decide.The rounds hit. Dust kicked off smooth dark skin exactly where they struck, small clean puffs against something that didn't so much as flinch.Nothing else happened.No stagger. No blood. Nothing that suggested pain lived anywhere inside whatever now stood between the two slabs of rock.Up close it had no face at all. Smooth dark where a face should have sat — no eyes, no mouth, nothing to read — and yet it turned toward the gap with the precision of something that already knew exactly where we stood without needing to look for us at all. Its legs bent wrong, backward in places a leg had no business bending, and it crossed the ground on them without a single stumble, without the slightest concession to a body that should have collapsed under its own constructi

~ LYRA ~ "We need to keep moving," Aelindra said, urgency biting through every word as she hauled Corin up by the arm. "He can't go faster," Darius snapped back, frustration and fear tangled together in his voice. "Look at him." Corin's legs had gone rubbery beneath him, each step landing wrong, like his body had used up whatever reserve of steadiness it had left back at the rock gap. I got under his other arm without being asked, felt his weight settle against my shoulder, thin and cold even through his sleeve. "How far to the lodge," I asked. "Twenty minutes if nothing else finds us," Aelindra said, scanning the tree line behind us with a wariness that hadn't eased since the creature dropped to one knee and let us go. "Fifteen if we're lucky." "We haven't been lucky all day." "No," she agreed, grim amusement flickering thin across her face. "We haven't." We pushed through the dark at the fastest pace Corin's legs allowed, which wasn't fast at all, every minute stretching lon