All Chapters of A CONTRACT SIGNED IN BLOOD AND DESIRE : Chapter 101

Three months later, Lina woke before sunrise.She lay motionless for a few seconds, waiting.There was no alarm.No bells.No warning.No voice from somewhere beneath the temple calling her name.Just silence.She stared at the ceiling, waiting for the feeling that had followed her for most of her life.The feeling that something was coming.Something terrible.Something that she had to stop.It never came.Lina smiled.She finally understood that sometimes silence was just that, silence.She walked away from the bed and towards the window.The city was still sleeping.The eighth world had changed in ways that no one ever dreamed.The old Council had dissolved.In its place was the World Assembly; representatives from all eight worlds gathered and debated, and occasionally walked out of meetings because they couldn't come to agreement.The source remained untouched beneath the temple.No ruler commanded it.No keeper protected it.No system dictated it.The First World remained closed