All Chapters of Bloodmoon Rising: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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Chapter 61: Aldric has a daughter

I called Soren from the car before we even cleared the border. He answered quick, just two rings, and the relief hit me sharp and clean.“Aldric,” I said. “Is he still there?”“Yeah. He’s been helping Tomas keep the crowd under control. Why?”“Don’t let him leave,” I told him. “Stay close, but don’t make it look like you’re watching him.”A pause. “How close are we talking?”“If he moves, you know it. That close.”“Understood.” Then Soren hesitated, just a beat. “Kaelis. He doesn’t look like a man hiding something. He’s been hauling water over to the wolves at the boundary for the last hour.”“I know. Do it anyway.”I hung up, glanced at Rhydian in the seat next to me. He was thinking, same as I was, running the angles.“He might not know,” I said.“About his daughter,” Rhydian said quietly. “Yeah. He might honestly not know she’s even in the network’s records. He left before she was born, that’s what Malek said. Started over. Built a different setup. The network could’ve traced his b

Chapter 62: She’s already moving

“How does she even know where we are?” I asked.Aldric checked his phone. His hands looked steady, but he was still pale. “I have no idea. I never contacted her. Her mother doesn’t know I’m here. No one on my relay team has her number.”Rhydian stepped closer when Calla called, close enough to take in every word. “The contingency protocol. If the network pre-loaded it into her mark waking, they also loaded in a destination. Somewhere to go. Someone to find.”“So they sent her to you,” I said, looking straight at Aldric.He met my eyes. “Why would they do that?”“You’re the third bloodline. The bond was completed through you, Rhydian, Malek, and Soren. If anyone wants to run a parallel bond with another carrier, they need the same bloodlines.” I let that settle. “You’re the easiest to reach, Aldric. You’re here, you’re known, you’re…..” I stopped myself.“Trusted,” Malek finished from behind me. His voice didn’t give anything away. “Or at least you were, ten minutes ago.”Aldric stayed

Chapter 63: She came faster

“She ran,” Malek said.“All the way,” Rhydian added.The woman at the edge of the territory just stood there, hands pressed to her chest, breathing sharp and hard. She was staring at the gold light like someone who’d been told to expect a miracle and found something stranger instead.I glanced at Aldric. He’d gone absolutely still, and for him, that was saying something. This was a man who always had a backup plan, always calculated every possible move. Now, he just stood there, quiet, staring at her, his daughter, with two decades of absence stretched between them, now shrunk to the width of a clearing.“Go to her,” I said.“She doesn’t know me,” he answered quietly.“She came here to find her father,” I said. “She knows enough. Go.”He started forward, and I let him pass, hanging back and watching. When he reached the line, the first wolf stepped aside. Aldric stopped in front of her.She looked up.From where I stood, I couldn’t make out his words. Didn’t matter, really. It was all

Chapter 64: Two Miras

“Zevran,” I called, cutting in before Rhydian could get the question out. “The woman at Greycliff. Tell me what she looks like.”He answered right away. “Older than I expected from the name. Maybe late forties. She came to the Elder hall entrance about an hour ago and asked for me, specifically. Said her name was Mira. She knew I’d been in contact with you, said she needed to reach you.”“How’d she know your name?” I asked.“She wouldn’t say. I asked her, she told me there wasn’t time to explain and I needed to call you.” He hesitated. “She’s not aggressive. She just… looks like someone who’s been traveling forever and is about to collapse, but she has something she needs to say before she runs out of time.”“Keep her there. Don’t let her leave. Don’t let anyone near her unless you know them yourself.”“Understood.” Then, “Kaelis, she overheard me call your name and told me to say she’s the Mira from the texts.”I went still.“The Mira from the texts,” I repeated, almost not believing

Chapter 65: The Archive room

We pulled into Greycliff about forty minutes later.Zevran waited for us at the entrance. He didn’t need to say anything, his face told me things inside were still a mess. He fell in beside me as we headed in.“She’s still in the archive room,” he said. “I hear her moving around. She hasn’t come out since she went in.”“Anyone else in the hall?” Rhydian asked.“Two of my people at each end,” Zevran said. “That’s it. It’s been quiet since we cleared it this afternoon.”Inside, the corridor looked just like I’d left it, dim lamp oil, shiny waxed floors, that echo you only get with old stone. It was the kind of place trouble liked to settle in. The archive room was third on the left, warm light spilling out beneath the door.I knocked once and went in, no waiting.She stood at the far shelves, pulling a box down from up high, moving like she knew exactly what she was after. She heard us come in but didn’t startle, which told me plenty. She set the box down and faced us.She looked forty-

Chapter 66: Until tomorrow night

“Tell me everything,” I said. “Don’t leave out the part the network cut.”Mira glanced at the stack of pages in my hand. “It’s long.”“Summarize,” I told her. “We’ll read the rest on the way back.”She slid into a chair, finally still, for once, and folded her hands on the table. I’d seen enough Vanes do that to know it was a habit.“It goes like this,” she started. “Finishing the bond sets off a process. Three stages. First, the return. That’s finished, everything the bloodlines had suppressed wakes up again. That part’s done.” She paused. “Second, the consolidation. The mark settles into the new bloodline, permanently, through the transfer. Not just as a thing that comes and goes, but something that’s always there, in every descendant, every generation.”“So it’s forever,” Rhydian said.She nodded. “That’s the point. The choice isn’t just about who gets it now. It decides which family holds it for everyone who comes after.”“And the last stage?” I asked.“That depends on who gets th

Chapter 67: Silver

The vehicle rolled into the confluence territory and I caught the shift before I’d even gotten out. Silver everywhere. Where an hour ago the clearing had glowed with gold, now every shaft of light had turned, quiet, but deep, into silver. The whole place sat under it, like somebody swapped out the bulbs for something just as warm, but running on a different frequency. It was the same silver that’d shaded my own shoulder, the mark at its brightest, clearest edge.The first wolf stood dead-center in the clearing, exactly where Soren said it would be. It stood still and the silver light rose from the ground around it in slow, steady columns. Almost like the light itself was alive, breathing.Soren met me at the edge. He glanced at the wolf, then at me.“It started ten minutes after you texted,” he said. “No warning. The gold just, shifted.”“The seven packs?” I asked.“Old-growth on the eastern side,” he said. “Keran and Aldis are with Tomas and Vael. They’re talking. No panic.” He hesit

Chapter 68: The young Mira

Everyone turned.Aldric's daughter stood at the northern edge of the clearing, her mother just behind her. The silver light did something new, it started pulling toward young Mira, almost like it had when the bond first began, but this time, it homed in on her, slow and subtle, like a compass needle finding north.She pressed both hands flat against her chest, just like she had back at the boundary."I can feel it," she said, eyes on the mark burning through my shirt. "I've felt... something, all evening. Thought it was the confluence ground. But it's not. It's in me. And it's... responding to….." She looked right at me. "To you."I edged closer.She stayed put."How long?" I asked."Since I got here. Since I crossed the boundary. But it's gotten louder these last ten minutes." She glanced at the silver light swirling around us. "Since the color changed."Her mother, older Mira, watched her with that strange look, some wild mess of pride and grief. You could see the weight of twenty y

Chapter 69: The beacon problem

“How far northwest?” I typed to Aldric.His reply came back in a heartbeat. “Three hours. Toward the silver light. She can see it from where she is.”I turned my screen to Rhydian. He read it, then glanced out at the spreading light near the trees, steady, patient, and honestly, it didn’t care what problem it was causing.“Can we stop it?” Malek asked.“I don’t know how,” I said.“The mark,” Soren said. “If the mark controls the light…."“I don’t control it,” I said. “Never have. The light does what the confluence ground does. What the sequence does. I’m not in charge.” I stared at those silver columns. “I’m just part of it.”“So we can’t stop it,” Malek said. “And Carrier Two is three hours out. She’s coming in, following a beacon everyone can see from the northwest.”“Yeah,” I said.“So the question is, what do we do with three hours?” Malek said.I looked at the clearing. Seven packs in the trees, all watching the silver light touching their paws. Four hundred wolves standing quiet

Chapter 70: Carrier two

Rhydian’s eyes had changed. Still that pale grey, still unmistakably his, but now there was something underneath, something new you could actually see, like the mark had settled into his bloodline the same way it had in mine. He looked at his hand, then at me, and we both stayed quiet. There wasn’t anything to say yet.Then someone yelled from the northwest boundary. “Hello? I can see the light. Is someone there?”Malek moved first, stepping out of the settlement. I followed. Soren was already at the edge of the clearing, watching the northwest.There, caught in the silver light, stood a young woman holding her hands out to her sides in that particular not-threatening way. She must have been taught to approach strange ground with caution, and she looked it. Maybe nineteen, slight, with dark skin and the exhausted edge of someone who’s been running way too long and finally, maybe, made it somewhere, but still isn’t sure.She took in the whole scene. The clearing. The light. The first w

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