SHACKLED TO THE SAVIOR의 모든 챕터: 챕터 11 - 챕터 13

The compound was lively to the brims. A sea of sweat, spilled ale, and raw merriment followed a hard harvest and a healthy birth. Outside the timber-framed walls of the forge, the air was thick with raucous laughter sharp and bright as a new blade cutting through the cooling evening mist."To Elias!" a voice roared. Wooden mugs thumped against a scarred oak table in a heavy, rhythmic beat."And to the boy! May his arms be as strong as his father's and his heart as steady as the anvil!"It was Elias's inner circle. Men he had bled and worked with for years, gathered to celebrate the arrival of his firstborn. Elias sat among them, a grin stretching across a face still smudged with the soot of his trade, now mixed with spills of wine and the grease of roasted meat.Inside the main house, his wife Melissa was resting. The room was a hive of midwives and well-wishers who had helped deliver the red faced miracle into the world. After years of prayers, the boy was finally here, asleep in her

Different thought surge through Elena mind as she sat on the hatch.She thought of Caspian. His head hitting the marble. The blood spreading across the white stone. She thought of the way the Reaper had caught her and put a knife on her throat just before the shackle sealed on his wrist.She did not know his name.The man who killed Caspian. The man who carried her through the forest. The man who called her Elena when she woke up the night before. The man who took her all through the jungle.She got up.Her legs were shaky, but they held. She crossed to the door and pushed it open.The morning air hit her face cool and clean, smelling of earth and grain and something sweet she could not name. She stepped outside and stopped.The field stretched out before her, barley and green, swaying in a breeze that felt like nothing she had ever felt before. It was not the filtered air of the Palace. It was not the terror of the forest. It was just... morning. A morning like any other morning in a