All Chapters of The Last Oath-Breaker: Chapter 11
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The Road Back
They left within the hour, Voss's warning still ringing in Wren's ears, and this time there was no pretense of a soldier's ordinary leave to maintain — no careful performance for anyone watching. He requisitioned two horses from the garrison stables using authority he technically didn't have anymore, and neither the quartermaster nor anyone else standing nearby made any move to stop him. Word had already spread. Whatever he was now, in the eyes of this camp, it was no longer simply *soldier.*"Three days ahead of us," Isolde said, swinging up onto her own horse, voice tight with the same dread coiling in Wren's chest. "If he rode hard, he could already be there.""Then we ride harder."They pushed the horses in a way Wren had never allowed himself to push an animal in nine years of careful, disciplined service — through the night, stopping only when the horses themselves refused to go further, sleeping in short, broken shifts that left him more exhausted waking than he'd been lying do
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What Was Waiting
The letter arrived before they'd even left the village — carried by the same washerwoman who'd told them of Maren's flight, a boy of perhaps ten trailing behind her, clutching a sealed envelope he clearly didn't understand the weight of."Rider left this an hour before you arrived," the boy said, holding it out to Wren with the particular solemnity of a child entrusted with something important. "Said to give it to whoever came asking after the Corvane woman. Said you'd know who it was from."Wren's hands went cold before he'd even broken the seal. He recognized the wax impression pressed into it — the same sigil Drayce wore on his own signet ring, the one Wren had watched catch lamplight a thousand times across thirteen years of dinners, briefings, quiet evenings that had felt, at the time, like family.He opened it there, standing in the doorway of Maren's empty house, Isolde close enough to read over his shoulder.*Wren —**I imagine by now you believe you understand everything. I w
Last Updated : 2026-08-29