21. Chapter

ZadeThe air in the room was heavy, filled with the bitter scent of herbs and the sweet, suffocating stench of fever. I hadn't moved from her bedside for hours. My ceremonial armor, which I still wore, was soaked with sweat and Eira's blood, but I didn't care. The only thing that mattered was whether her chest was rising or not.Eira's face was as white as the pillow she lay on. Candlelight glinted in the beads of sweat on her forehead. Occasionally, she hissed in her sleep, her hands clutching the blanket convulsively, as if fighting some invisible enemy."No... don't touch me..." she whimpered softly, her voice breaking. "It's dark..."I clenched my jaw. Every single whisper of hers felt like a knife twisting inside me. I knew she wasn't talking about her current pain. She was wandering in her past, in that hell she had survived before fate threw her in my path. I took her hand—carefully, as if she were made of porcelain—and although her skin was burning with fever, her fingers were

Last Updated : 2026-05-25

22. Chapter

ZadeThe silence in the room was so thick you could almost cut it. Only the sputtering of the candles and Eira's heavy, feverish breathing served as a reminder that she was still alive. I sat beside her, my hands trembling from exhaustion as I wiped her face with a cool cloth. Every single one of her features had burned itself into my mind over the past few days. The defiance that lingered at the corner of her mouth even in her fever dreams, and the vulnerability she only allowed to be seen now, in the grip of the poison. Deep within my consciousness, Noctis stirred restlessly; my dragon felt every ounce of the girl's pain, and this double burden nearly consumed me.Then, the silence was shattered not by a knock, but by an explosive crash.The door was thrown open with such force that the heavy oak panel slammed into the wall. Caspian burst into the room. His face was flushed red, his eyes flashed wildly, and the stench of wine rolled off him from across the room. He didn’t look at th

Last Updated : 2026-06-15

23. Chapter

EiraThe world throbbed. Every single heartbeat was a hammer blow to the left side of my face. A metallic, salty taste spread in my mouth, the taste of my own blood. The cold stone of the floor pressed against my face, but the heat of the embers radiating from the fireplace only made the throbbing more unbearable.Slowly, trembling, I opened my eyes. My vision was blurred; the room lay in ruins around me. And then I saw him.Zade knelt there a few steps away from me. He was not the man who had cooled my fever over the past few days. His hair was disheveled, and his eyes... those dark blue irises still vibrated with rage, but there was something else in them, too. Something that made my stomach tie into knots.As soon as he moved toward me, my body reacted involuntarily. I pressed my back against the wall and reflexively covered my face with my hands. My breath hitched, and the terror I had tried to bury for so many years pounded in my throat. The dark alleys, the depths of the cellars

Last Updated : 2026-06-15

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