Alle Kapitel von The Moon's Forgotten Heir: Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 33

I didn’t see the great hall fall. I’ve spoken to nine different people who were there after the eleventh leash snapped, and I don't believe a single one of them, not entirely. I wasn't there in any way that mattered.I had only the black.It wasn't the stark, blinding white of the waystation, that ringing, luminous void with a high, sustained note vibrating through it. This was absolute dark. Down had ceased to exist. A sharp, rhythmic agony vibrated through the bridge of my nose, every heartbeat detonating like a hard bang behind my eyes. I tried to sit up, but my spine collapsed under me. I tried to curl my fingers, but my left hand lay useless and flat against the stone. Blood was coming out of me, slow, steady streams leaking from places I couldn't account for.Later, Ilma told me about it. Her voice carried the clinical flatness of a master physician, though she couldn't quite mask the tremor beneath it. "I have spent forty years learning what a body can be asked to give," she wh

The Moon Court is nothing more than a ring of standing stones atop a bare, windswept hill four days east of Blackthorn, encircled by a humble turf bank. There is no roof, no formal hall, and no throne. It has served as the gathering place for the territories since before any of them carried a name.No one had sat there in four hundred years. There had been no reason to. You do not convene the Seven when a Crown exists, because the Crown was created to replace the Seven.We crested the hill at noon on the fourth day and found every territory already assembled.Ordric of Sunscar occupied the southern stone.Hollowmere sat nearby. Emberpine was represented by a man named Cynric, who carefully avoided my eyes.Thornwake’s place was held by Rosamund, standing in for her father, who remained under arrest. Once again, she had journeyed four days along the road entirely alone. Silverfang’s stone was occupied by Edmund, with Evander standing behind him, noticeably thinner than he had been at B