Alle Kapitel von Never. Say. Yours.: Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 34

They went to the harbor on a Friday night. All three of them. Josie in her boots and a jacket. Harlan in his button-down, sleeves rolled. Dane in his henley. Three people on a dock at midnight, looking at black water."You want me to call her?" Josie asked."Don't call her," Harlan said. "She'll come if she wants to.""She'll come," Dane said. "She's been watching us for a year. She knows we're here."The water moved. Not waves. Something underneath. A long, dark shape, silver in the moonlight, moving parallel to the dock. Margit surfaced twenty feet out. Her human face above the water, her body below, serpentine, coiling, massive. Her silver eyes caught the moonlight and threw it back."Seer," she said. Her voice carried across the water, clear and cold. "And her beasts.""We need to talk about the chair," Josie said."I know.""What do you know?"Margit was quiet. The water lapped at the dock. Her sil

One year after the binding.The humming had become a vibration. Josie felt it in her teeth, in her bones, in the bond that connected her to two beasts and to a city that was more alive than she'd ever known. The seventh chair was not just humming anymore. It was resonating. A low, persistent frequency that only she and the lords could feel, and that she felt more than any of them because she was a seer and seers felt everything.She was in the stone room. The torches. The table. The blank wall where the names had been. The six chairs occupied. The seventh, at the head, empty. But the stone around it was cracked. Hairline fractures running from the base of the chair outward, spreading across the floor like roots. Like veins. Like something underneath was pushing up.Margit stood at the chair. Her silver eyes were on the cracks. She was in human form but her hair moved on its own, agitated, the serpentine energy underneath responding to whatever was in the s