Rejected Luna: Rise of an Omega Queen의 모든 챕터: 챕터 111 - 챕터 120

Something beneath the sanctuary breathed again.Slowly.Deeply.The sound traveled through the floor beneath my feet, making the ancient stones tremble.I stared at the eighth symbol.It was unlike the others.The seven marks around it represented everything I had remembered.Memory.Fear.Knowledge.Instinct.Imagination.The forgotten half.The parts that had once been separated from me.But the eighth symbol was different.It wasn't a symbol of a part.It was a symbol of an ending.“What does it mean?” I asked.Nobody answered.I looked at Seraphine.She wouldn't meet my eyes.“Seraphine.”Her jaw tightened.“You shouldn't remember this.”“I've already remembered everything else.”“No.”She finally looked at me.“You've remembered what happened before you became human.”Her voice trembled.“This is what happened before you became Amara.”The ground shook.Ethan moved closer.“Ama, whatever that thing is, maybe we shouldn't—”“I need to know.”He stopped.I knew he was afraid.So wa

The darkness swallowed the sanctuary.For several seconds, nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Then my grandfather screamed.Not in anger.Not in pain.In fear.Real fear.The kind I had never seen on his face before.“Don't let it reach me.”I stared at him.The words sounded almost impossible.My grandfather had never begged.Not when the Order came for me.Not when the first world opened.Not when the Unremembered appeared.Not even when the First Voice revealed itself.But now he was begging.“Who is it?” I asked.He shook his head.“You don't understand.”“Then explain.”“I can't.”“You've spent my entire life telling me what I could and couldn't understand.”I stepped toward him.“Now it's your turn.”The darkness shifted.Something moved beyond the walls.The voice returned.“He remembers too much.”My grandfather closed his eyes.The First Witness whispered,“It's beginning.”Ethan moved closer to me.“What is beginning?”She looked at him.“The correction.”My stomach tightened.“

“Ama?”My mother's voice came from beyond the doorway.For a moment, the entire world stopped.I couldn't breathe.I couldn't move.I simply stared.She stood beneath the strange silver sky of the first world, exactly as I remembered herThe soft brown eyes.The gentle smile.The small crease beside her mouth when she smiled.Even the way she tilted her head when she was waiting for me to answer.My mother.The woman I had lost when I was too young to understand what losing someone meant.“Mum?”My voice broke.She smiled.“Come here, sweetheart.”My feet moved before my mind could stop them.One step.Then another.Evelyn grabbed my wrist.“No.”I turned.Her face was full of fear.“That's not her.”I stared at her.“How do you know?”“Because I knew your mother.”My heart tightened.“You did?”Evelyn nodded.“She was my friend.”I looked back through the doorway.My mother was still standing there.Waiting.“She looks exactly like her.”“I know.”“Then how can she not be?”Evelyn's

For several seconds, nobody moved.The words on the paper seemed to burn into my mind.They're waiting for you.I read them again, even though I already knew what they meant.Beneath the first world.There was another place.Another layer beneath everything we had already uncovered.And somehow, my grandfather had known about it.“Ama.”Ethan's voice pulled me back.I looked at him.His eyes were fixed on the letter in my hand.“What did it say?”I handed it to him.He read the sentence, then looked at Lena.“So there are more of them?”Seraphine didn't answer.That frightened me more than the letter.She had always had an answer.Even when she refused to tell me the truth, she had at least known what was coming.Now she looked genuinely afraid.“Who are they?” I asked.Seraphine finally raised her eyes.“The people who existed before the Order.”“That doesn't answer my question.”“They called themselves the Keepers.”“The Keepers?”She nodded.“They were the first humans to learn tha

For a moment, I forgot how to breathe.My mother was alive.Not a memory.Not a creature wearing her face.Not another illusion created from everything I had lost.My mother.The woman I had spent my entire life believing was dead.And she had just looked at me and said my grandfather had done this.I stared at her.“My grandfather?”She nodded slowly.“He brought me here.”“Why?”Her eyes dropped to the chains around her wrists.“Because I knew what you were.”The words sent a chill through me.“What am I?”My mother looked at me for a long moment.“You're asking the wrong question.”“Then tell me the right one.”She smiled sadly.“Ask why they were so afraid of you.”I stepped closer.The silver chains around her wrists glowed faintly.“Who are they?”“The Keepers.”“The people who came before the Order?”“Yes.”“And my grandfather was one of them.”“He wasn't just one of them.”Her voice became quieter.“He led them.”I froze.The pieces inside my mind shifted.My grandfather.The