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It had all been part of a meticulously woven web of lies. "Have you forgotten how my brother-in-law died, Craig? Have you forgotten how I've treated you all these years? Is this how you repay my family?" Uncle Winston hissed. He marched over, grabbed Craig by the collar, and looked as if he wanted to tear him into a thousand pieces. Looking at the burning hatred in everyone's eyes, Craig knew he could no longer defend himself. His legs gave out, and he collapsed onto the floor. The very next second, he crawled toward me, clutched the hem of my pants, and pleaded, "I messed up, Thea. I know I messed up! Can you please forgive me just this once?

Just like that. I stood there, numb. His parents had given everything to their country. They didn’t deserve to die like that. If he had stayed, they would have lived. Instead, he walked away to help Vanessa chase a second-class medal, and traded two lives for it. The Cole family had always been known for its legacy of service. And yet, it had produced someone like him. I called Richard Cole. The moment he heard, he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. After that, everything fell on me.

The silver vials of her suppressant medicine sat untouched on the mahogany table, glowing with a soft, mocking light. "She is twenty-four years old." The Priestess's voice trembled, caught between fear and fury. "In less than thirteen days, the manifestation begins. If she is not in the Harvest Cradle when the sun hits the center of the Great Gear, our ancestors' sacrifices will be for nothing. We will remain mortal. We will wither. We will die." Valerius turned. His eyes burned with a cold, desperate light. "She has not been taken to the Fallen's realm yet. The Reaper is smart, but his life brand is leaking." He paused, his jaw tightening. "He is taking her to the Forbidden Marches. He is t

The particular threat of someone who could burn the Hall to ash and was choosing to speak instead. “Victory built on unwilling sacrifice is not victory. It is theft. It is murder dressed in rhetoric. The god of wisdom asks what may be sacrificed for victory and what must never be. I say this: the only thing you have the right to sacrifice is yourself. Your comfort. Your safety. Your life, if you choose. But never another’s. Never the innocent’s. Never the outcast’s, simply because their blood is cheaper than yours and their screams don’t reach your ears.”

If she came back to me, she was my salvation. I looked at the crumpled magazine on the desk one last time. The headline stared back at me, a reminder that the world was watching my descent. My father wanted a sacrifice? Fine. I would give the Goddess a sacrifice, but it wouldn't be my heart. It would be the North’s.

I demanded. She looked at me, and I saw the answer in her eyes before she spoke. "I'm saying I'll be the sacrifice. Me and Sophie, the girl Victoria kidnapped. We'll both go willingly. Two lives given freely to save the others." "No!" I roared. "Absolutely not! I won't let you…" "It's not your choice," Thelma interrupted. "The Guardian said the sacrifice must be willing. Well, I'm willing. I've died seven times before trying to save you, Xavier. What's one more?"

I want to live. “This selfishness will lead you nowhere. True salvation is in sacrifice and selflessness. Sacrifice yourself, Zeve. Then you will be honoured and praised even after you die. No one will hate you. Sacrifice yourself. That is your destiny, Zeve. Stop trying to swim and submit yourself to me…” I felt a hand slither from my belly to my chest to my neck. It was warm and gentle. The other hand wrapped around my hip. ‘Who are you?’ His embrace was warm in that freezing sea.

She roared with the effort, her form flickering wildly between girl and shadow. Clack. The drawer pulled open. Inside was a single, yellowed folder labeled: VANCE – TOTAL FORFEITURE. Elara grabbed it. The paper felt solid, heavy, and real. As she opened it, a gust of cold wind swept through the office, knocking books off the shelves. Inside the folder was the original contract. But the ink was moving. The words were rewriting themselves in real-time. “The Sacrifice is rejected. The Debt is transferred to the blood of the father.”

Albert asked, "Ms. Janson, shall we teach them a lesson?" I shook my head. "There's no need for that, Albert. The game has just begun." When I returned to the city, the carefully planned thunderstorm that I was about to lay on them started to take shape. The story of the flood was spun into multiple versions and 'leaked' through various channels. The first version was the romantic take. The heiress to the Janson Group, hiding her identity for love, had been with a common man for three years, only to be abandoned by him and her best friend, all for a suitcase full of gifts and future prospects, nearly losing her life.

“We have to move. Now.” But Elara couldn’t move. The creature was looking at her. Not Kael. Not Dain. Her. “You are the one,” it murmured, tilting its head unnaturally. The cavernous black pits where its eyes should have been locked onto hers. “The heart. The key. The sacrifice.” A violent shudder coursed through her body. Sacrifice. The word rang in her mind like a tolling bell, dredging up pieces of the prophecy she had fought so hard to ignore.