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ELARABy the time we reached the royal residence, I'd already made a decision.I wanted to see the metal box again.It had been secured after my first inspection. I'd already opened it and gone through what was inside—an old knife, a broken chain, two pieces of folded cloth, and a few coins.Nothing had immediately explained why Elias had possessed it then so I'd ordered it taken to Cassian afterward.Now, I asked for it to be brought to me.When it arrived, I placed it on the table and studied it.The Moonblade insignia was still clearly visible.I'd noticed it the first time but what I hadn't paid attention to was the construction.The box wasn't really designed like battlefield equipment.It was too carefully made.Its edges were reinforced, but the inside was shaped to protect small objects rather than carry supplies.I ran my fingers along the inner frame and then stopped.There was a slight difference in the wood, I pressed it but nothing happened.I tried again and a small sec

Last Updated : 2026-09-12

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RONANThe argument over the western hunting route had lasted twelve minutes before I realized neither side actually remembered what they were arguing about anymore.I rubbed my forehead, “Start again.”The two hunters looked at each other and one cleared his throat.“The boundary stone was moved.” This issue was completely different from the one that was resolved at the summit. This one is minor and it's between lands . “By who?”They both went silent and I looked from one face to the other.“You came to me with a complaint about a moved boundary stone and neither of you knows who moved it?”The older hunter shifted uncomfortably, “We thought the other one knew.”I stared at him and couldn't help but laugh. It wasn't a particularly funny situation, but my pack members had a way of making even ridiculous problems feel important.“Put the stone back where it was and then both of you can go home.” I said and they nodded quickly.When they left, I leaned back in my chair.This was what

Last Updated : 2026-09-13

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RONANThe quartermaster nodded, “I understand.”“I want records, not theories.” I added and he nodded slowly. “I'll see what I can find.”When he left, I sat alone for a moment.My brother's name didn't need to be written beside the question.It was already there.I thought briefly about everything that has been happening these past few weeks—the summit, the things that had been said, the things that hadn't and, against my better judgment, I wondered how Elara was doing.The thought came quietly without any ache or desperate wish to change anything.I was just curious about her well-being and hoped she was well.I hoped the journey home had been easy.And, if I was being completely honest with myself, there was a small part of me that wouldn't mind crossing paths with her again not to ask her to come back or to reopen what she had already closed. I just wanted to see her and know if she was living the life she'd chosen.I let the thought pass and then heard a small voice outside th

Last Updated : 2026-09-14

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ELARABy midmorning, I had already dealt with three complaints about roads, two arguments over livestock, and one very angry shopkeeper who insisted that a neighboring village had been stealing his customers.I was halfway through signing a report when the door opened and Rhys stepped inside.“There are people waiting outside.”I looked up from the document in front of me.“How many?”“Six.”“That sounds manageable.”“They're not.”I smiled despite myself. “That bad?”“They've been arguing among themselves for the last ten minutes.”I put the pen down, “Send them in.”Rhys moved aside, and six villagers entered.They looked tired and it was the kind that settled into people's faces when they had been worrying for too long.An older man stepped forward.“My name is Alden and I lead the village of Briar Hollow.”I nodded. “Tell me what happened.”“It is the workers, Your Highness.”I resisted the urge to sigh, it was another dispute.“What workers?”“The ones who left for the timber and

Last Updated : 2026-09-16

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ELARA My stomach tightened, “Before?”He nodded, “I saw it on transport markings.”“What kind of transport?”“Supplies, timber, stone and other things like that.”“Military?”“Not always.” he replied and that distinction mattered.I sat across from him, “What do you mean?”“Some civilian contractors used the same northern routes the military used for transport.”I thought of the abandoned work site, the unfinished sheds, the missing workers and the symbol on the cloth.“What about the people using those routes? Were they connected to the military?”“I don't know.”The answer came quickly without hesitation or any attempt to give me something I wanted to hear.I appreciated that, “Then don't guess.”“I won't.”I studied him for a moment.“Did you see this symbol around the time of the battle?”“Yes.”“Before the battle?”“Yes.”“How long before?”“I can't remember exactly.”He rubbed a hand over his face, “Days or maybe more, there was a lot happening then so I can't really remember v

Last Updated : 2026-09-17

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ELARAI didn't dismiss the worker yet. The young man remained standing on the other side of my desk, his hands clasped tightly in front of him while his eyes kept moving around the room. His eyes moved from the door to the window and then to the door again.He looked as though he expected someone to come through either one.“Sit,” I said gently and he hesitated before taking the chair.I placed the paper on the desk between us, “Start from the beginning.”His fingers tightened around his knees, “The contractor came to our village several weeks ago.”“Did he come alone?”“No, there were others with him.”“How many?”“I don't know, maybe five or six.”“And they showed the villagers this?”I touched the authorization and he nodded.“They said our Alpha king had approved the work.”He swallowed.“People believed them because of the seal.”I looked down at the document, it has Aveloria's royal seal.The kingdom's name still carried weight in these villages. It was supposed to mean protec

Last Updated : 2026-09-18

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ELARA I set my gloves down, “Gone where?”“He closed his operation months ago.”“And the people who worked for him?”“One of his former transport managers is still working.”“With whom?”Rhys gave me the name of the new contractor and I went still.“Where?”He told me, it was still the same northern route and the same stretch of road where the missing workers had been transported.I rubbed my forehead, “What about the route symbol?”“It is possibly connected,” Rhys said and I looked at him.“Possibly.”He understood and I didn't want either of us turning possibility into certainty yet.I suddenly came across Kieran later that afternoon.I found him near the northern trade yard, arguing with one of the Easthaven traders over a stack of timber.He noticed me immediately.“Please tell me you're here to take my side.”“I haven't heard your side yet.”“That sounds promising.”I smiled, “What happened?”He explained that an Easthaven shipment had been delayed and rerouted without a clear r

Last Updated : 2026-09-19

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ELARAI read the sentence again.‘Route changed by order.’The words hadn't changed since the last time I looked at them.I was the one who had changed.I sat behind my desk with the old transport record open in front of me, the fake authorization beside it and three other files spread across the table.I forced myself not to connect them yet.The company had been authorized to move supplies through the northern route before the battle.That was a fact.The route had later been changed and that was also a fact.The same company now appeared to have some connection to the contractor who recruited workers from the villages.That was something I was still investigating and the fake authorization used our kingdom’s seal.That was another fact too. Everything else was a question.I picked up my pen and wrote them down.What do I know?The list was short.What do I think?That list was already too long.I stared at it and then crossed out the second heading.Thinking wasn't the problem but

Last Updated : 2026-09-20

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ELARASeeing the name Garrick in the middle of the old transport record, written in faded ink beside a route designation that had meant very little to me until now bothered me so much. I read it multiple times. The handwriting was cramped. There was a short notation beneath the name that referred to a route that passed through the northern district. It was the same general area where workers had recently been moved between unauthorized sites and the same region where Tomas had wandered into the forest and found Elias.I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my forehead.There were too many connections and that was exactly the problem.Garrick worked in Moonblade's military logistics.His name appeared on an old northern transport record.The route on that record passed through Aveloria's northern district.The old permit had been issued only weeks before Ronan's brother's final battle.The current worker exploitation network had connections to an older transport operation.The former

Last Updated : 2026-09-21

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ELARAThat thought stayed with me as I walked back toward my office.A driver might only know where to take a group of workers, a clerk might only process a document, a contractor might only know where to collect them and a supervisor might know only the name of the person above him.None of them needed to know the whole picture and that was what made operations like this difficult to uncover.You could find one person and still be nowhere near the person making the decisions.Elias had understood that. He had spent years around military movement, where orders passed from one person to another until they became action.The person carrying a message didn't always know why it mattered.The person moving supplies didn't always know where they would end up.The person arranging transport might never meet the commander who requested it.I thought of Garrick again and then I stopped myself from overthinking things. I wasn't going to make him fit simply because his name had appeared yet. *

Last Updated : 2026-09-22

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