Todos los capítulos de The Omen in My Voice: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 9

When I kicked open the coffin lid, the mausoleum steward tumbled down the steps in terror.White mourning banners twisted in the wind, and mourning papers scattered across the chamber.Someone screamed, "The dead woman's moving."Half my body was still trapped inside the coffin, and an iron shackle around my ankle had been bolted to the bottom.Northcott Hall had been determined to make certain I died. Even their burial sacrifice came with a lock.Fresh scratches marked the inside wall of the coffin. Beatrice had carved them."Calamities belong underground, rotting forever."I laughed once. The coffin nails had already torn my palm open.The mausoleum steward had nearly lost his senses."Hold her down. Don't let that filthy thing near His Majesty."Two young attendants rushed me, but I caught the coffin edge and dragged myself free.In the central sarcophagus, Emperor Cassian Thornfield's face had turned gray, yet his chest still moved faintly.An elderly palace steward hur

Cassian's personal guard, Tobias Vance, hid me inside a side chamber of Hollowcrest Mausoleum.Only after I'd stripped off the burial dress did I realize the cloth bundle I always carried was gone.It held the urn with my mother's ashes.I grabbed Tobias by the sleeve. "Where are my mother's remains?"He looked startled. "You weren't carrying an urn when they brought you in."Northcott Hall must have kept it to keep a grip on me.I'd found a way out of the grave only to feel it close again.Every humiliation, every swallowed grief, lodged in my throat.I'd walk straight back into death before I left my mother in that house.Tobias blocked the doorway."Lady Elara, don't do anything reckless."I shoved him aside."Move. Before my mother died, she held my hand and made me promise to take her home to Veyra."Everything I've survived was for the chance to keep that promise."Conflict crossed his face."The city's crawling with the Dowager Queen's informants."Cassian coughe

The incense stick dropped out of Beatrice's hand.Terror emptied her face, and her legs folded under her.The doors of the mourning hall burst open. The Dowager Queen swept in with Crown Guards and royal physicians.They'd marched me in under guard at the back of the procession.One glance told me the black, web-shaped lines had spread across Cassian's chest again.I tried to step forward, but the Dowager Queen raised a hand and a blade came up against my throat.She walked over and lifted my chin with a jeweled finger guard."Tell me, girl. Did you come here to lift the Emperor's curse, or to set the last mark that kills him?"Beatrice knelt nearby, crying until her face paint streaked."Your Majesty, it was her. Elara was the burial sacrifice, not me. She used witchcraft on me and on the Emperor."The blade cut deeper, and blood ran under my collar.The Dowager Queen didn't even glance at her. She smiled at me instead."Wake the Emperor and I'll make you Royal Physician t

I carried the silver bell to Cassian.He sat behind a writing desk, studied the clan mark, and pushed a sealed intelligence file toward me."Your mother wasn't some medicine trader's daughter."Two words were written at the top of the page: Stormscent Lineage.My fingers stopped on the paper.Cassian explained."There was a line of women in Veyra who could read a disaster before it finished forming, by scent and by pulse. They were called Stormscent women."My throat tightened. I'd never been a calamity.When I was seven, I smelled the metallic cold coming off the thin part of the lake ice, and that was why I said Beatrice's fingers would rot with frost.When I was thirteen, the horses were restless in the stable.I smelled bloodroot on Moira's sleeve and said she'd see blood before sunset.Cassian opened another report."Your mother came into Stoneharbor under a false name to deliver an antidote to my father. The formula vanished, and Nerissa died of a sudden illness."I

A minister loyal to Emperor Alaric held up the sealed order.It said plainly, "If House Ellery seizes the government, or the Emperor is placed in danger, the Red Mesa Legion may enter Stoneharbor to defend the Crown."When the soldiers forced the Dowager Queen down, she tried to play mad."I knew nothing. My brother deceived me."Ellery turned on her instantly."Poisoning the late Emperor was your idea, and you're the one who demanded your son take the throne."The old allies started tearing each other open.How Alaric died, how the antidote disappeared, all of it came out of their mouths piece by piece.Moira knelt in a corner with a gray face.I walked up to the Dowager Queen, who was still trying to hold herself like a ruler."Elara Northcott, you're a baseborn nobody. You've no right to question me."I picked up the broken prayer beads beside her."You've prayed for years, and there's still slow poison under your fingernails."She pulled her hands back on instinct, and