Ashbound Moon
“But the bond is the oldest cage of all.”
The room trembled.
A new presence pressed down on everything—heavy, ancient, not Hollow King, not tracker, not Selah.
The Moon.
Even here, inside the bond, it arrived like gravity.
A voice—not in my ears, but in my bones—spoke once, low and vast:
ASHBOUND.
The word shook the nursery walls.
Selah’s smile faltered.
The shadow inside Kieran went still.
Kieran’s blue eyes widened in desperate hope. “Aria,” he whispered. “It’s you. It’s calling you.”
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