All Chapters of The Luna's Silence: Price of the Allied Throne : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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Chapter 21: The Salt and the Sea

The glass desert was a sad and beautiful place. It was like a piece of glass that went on forever. The Salt Flats had been cooked into a sheet of glass that was so clear it looked like water. When you walked on it it felt like you were walking on the stars because it reflected the three moons in the sky perfectly.King Silas was taken away by his generals. They dragged him to the boat because he was hurt really bad. He was not a king anymore he was a man who could not keep his promises.The resonance is changing Helios said. He was standing at the edge of the glass sea. His golden hair was blowing in the wind. He looked like a statue. The third seal is sad he said. I can hear her heartbeat under the water.I said the Sea-Singer. I was wearing a cloak and the Lunar Circlet. It felt different now it felt warmer. The maps we found said the Azure Trench was past the Southern Isles.. There were bad people there privateers who worked for the Royal Pack.Then we need a boat Malachi said. He

Chapter 22: The Abyssal Descent

The Widow’s Wail was not a ship built for comfort. It was a tooth of iron and enchanted weirwood designed to bite into the oceans throat.As we cleared the cliffs of the Shiver the open sea rose up to meet us like a wall. The waves were huge. Threatened to swallow the deck.. Every time the ship dipped into a trough the Aetheric engines groaned and surged. The violet light from my hands helped stabilize them.I stood in the engine room with my palms on the vibrating metal of the "Heart-Core." Helios stood beside me with his eyes closed. His golden light helped keep the ships hull stable. Without him the oceans pressure would crush the iron."Steady, Princess!" Captain Vane’s voice boomed from the bridge. "We're approaching the shelf. The Abyssal Current will hit us hard!""I have it!" I shouted back gritting my teeth in pain.Connecting to the ship was like holding onto an animal. Every lurch of the hull every wave impact, rippled through my nerves. I felt the oceans weight pressing do

Chapter 23: The Crushing Weight of Truth

The deep ocean did not scream it let out a groan that sounded like the world was being folded in half.The Void-Eaters hand was like nothing I had ever seen before. It was made of "Anti-Aether" a kind of vacuum that sucked the light out of the Sea-Singers sapphire form. As the shadow tightened around her throat her bioluminescence. The water around her turned a murky grey.Captain Vanes voice was frantic as he yelled through the speaking tube. "The hull is buckling! The pressure is getting worse by the second! Princess if you do not do something we will be crushed!"I did not wait for anyone to respond. I ran to the center of the engine room. I did not go for the iron. I went for the glass.I slammed my hands against the window. The Lunar Circlet on my brow was no longer violet it was a white. My vision blurred as I forced my mind out of the ship and into the water.I thought to myself I am the Moon. The Moon moves the tides. The Moon is the mistress of the deep.I did not try to pull

Chapter 24: The Queen’s Gambit

The Southern Ocean looked like it was ready for a fight. Fifty war-skiffs were lined up their hulls shining with quartz and they were waiting like predators. The Queen’s flagship, *The Eclipse* was right in the middle looking like a mountain of bone and obsidian.Queen Valerius was standing at the front of the ship. Her skin was a pale purple and the scepter in her hand was pulsing with a dark light that seemed to match the beat of the Void-Eater we had just seen in the depths."So " I said quietly the wind blowing through my hair. "The 'Sick Queen' was a disguise. You’ve been getting power from the Void for twenty years.""Elowen look up at the sky " Malachi warned, his hand on the handle of his blade.The sun was still high. Around the Queen’s fleet the light was bending and changing. It was like a kind of eclipse with a ring of cold, black fire that was making the waves look pale and dead. This was not just magic. It was the **Corrupted Fourth Seal** the Star-Weaver, changing reali

Chapter 25: The Tremor in the Timber

Chapter 25: The Tremor in the Timber The Southern Ocean was now behind us but I could still taste the deep sea. As The Widow’s Wail docked at the Western estuary I felt the salt under my skin. It mixed with a slow-moving current that I hadn't felt before. I stood in the captain's quarters looking down at my hand. Under the lantern light the veins under my fingernails didn't look healthy. They were spider-like lines of dark ink. When I tried to connect with the Aether it didn't spark; it hissed, blocked by the Void-matter I had taken in to stop Queen Valerius’s eclipse. "You're hiding it from the others, " Malachi said, standing in the doorway. His silhouette blocked the green-tinted mist of the mangroves. He didn't ask to come, he just walked in. His golden eyes immediately locked onto my hand before I could pull my sleeve down. "Kaelen and Jaxon are already dealing with a war " I said, my voice tight. "They don't need to know their sister is carrying a problem." "It's not a pro

Chapter 26: The Sinking Floor

The ground gave way beneath me. It was like the earth was slowly swallowing me whole. It was not a drop but a slow and painful slide.As the ground split open the hard stone turned into a fragile thing. My boots could not get a grip. I was stuck. The cold feeling in my veins made my body feel heavy. I could not move. I was a woman falling into a deep hole in the mountain."Elowen!"Malachi did not wait, he just jumped into the hole after me. His black cloak billowed out behind him like the wings of a bird.The air was thick with the smell of sulfur and old metal as we fell into the darkness of the **Root-Vaults**. The sound of the quarry above grew fainter. Was replaced by a loud rhythmic beating sound. It was like the heart of the earth was pounding in my ears.We hit a slope and tumbled down sliding on loose coal dust and stones. Malachi grabbed me. Shielded my head as we fell. We finally stopped on a flat piece of old wood that stretched across a deep canyon.I was. My right arm wa

Chapter 27: The Core of the Mountain

The air at the copper line didn't smell of metal; it tasted like blood.The humidity was so thick it felt like breathing in fire. The orange glow from the river below cast a hellish light across the cavern. As Malachi and I went down the set of petrified roots we saw the Earth-Shaker's huge stone-ribbed body.He was stuck into the mountain wall. His chest was cracked open not by nature. By huge iron boring-drills. These drills were being turned by a system of steam-powered gears. From his heart, a liquid glowing like magma—his Celestial Core—was being taken into a huge iron pot.The pot was suspended over the copper.Alpha Garrick stood on a metal walkway beside the pot. His iron mallet rested on his shoulder. He looked down at us. Laughed loudly."The Northern Luna!" Garrick shouted. "You’re too late Princess! The Queen’s gold bought us the tools. The Earth-Shaker’s blood will buy us the empire! With this core we can make weapons that can cut through the Aether shields of the High Pe

Chapter 28: The Price of Twilight

I didn't wake up with a rush of light. It was like cold water slowly seeping into a cracked basin.When I opened my eyes, the hot oppressive air from the copper line was gone. The air was cool and smelled of cedar and rain-washed slate. I was lying on a bed of thick furs inside a hollowed-out root chamber. Above me the gentle hum of the mountain felt stable like a resting beast whose fever had finally broken."Don't try to sit up, " a voice said gently.Malachi stepped into the flickering firelight of the chamber. He had washed the soot from his face. His golden eyes were dark and shadowed by exhaustion. In his hand he carried a bowl steaming with a bitter herbal tea.I ignored his warning. Pushed myself up against the smooth wood of the root wall. My right arm felt heavy. I had a dull throbbing ache. I pulled back the sleeve of my tunic. The charcoal-ink veins had. Hadn't disappeared. They clustered around my wrist now a bracelet of shadow that looked like a branding."The Earth-Shak

Chapter 29: The Gilded Cage of the Capital

The Central Capital was a city. It did not look like it was about to be involved in a war in the sky. The city looked like a diamond in the sunlight.The city was very big. It was situated in a huge area between some neutral territories. It had lots of marble roads, tall glass towers and nice gardens in the air. This city was the center of the wolf world where all the important people lived. It was where the High Council and the Central Parliament were located. These were the people who made the rules and laws for everyone. They used pens and papers to make agreements of fighting with their teeth and claws. The city also had a lot of money and magic that helped keep the people from the other areas under control."This city smells bad, " Kaelen said quietly, pulling his grey coat up around his neck.We had changed our clothes for new ones so we could fit in with the other important people from the North. If we had gone to the Capital with our weapons and magic the city's defense system

Chapter 30: The Pendulum’s Edge

The fall did not end with a crash but with a slow and sickening stop.It felt like the air had turned into oil catching all the broken bits of the Parliament and slowing us down until we landed on a floor made of shiny, interlocking brass gears.The screams of the delegates above grew quieter echoing through the huge cavern like voices stuck in a deep well."Everyone move " I panted, my boots catching on the edge of a spinning wheel beneath us.The air here was cold and smelled of old copper, ozone and a strange metallic scent that made the back of my throat taste bad.This was the Chronos-Vault, a room built under the Capital before the first treaty was ever signed."Elowen, your hand, " Malachi said, his voice next to me. He did not look at the machines around us; his eyes were on my right wrist.The charcoal-ink veins were not just pulsing now; they were. Forming weird geometric shapes that crawled toward my palm.The weird time effect of the vault was making the infection worse.E

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