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CHAPTER 12 — The High Marrow Enforcer
The High Marrow Enforcer stepped into the chamber like a nightmare sculpted from steel and bone. Its armor was carved from fused vertebrae, polished to a mirror sheen.Null-runes crawled across its gauntlets like living veins. Its skull-like helmet glowed with cold blue fire.And in its hand, a null-forged execution blade, humming with lethal precision.Chris staggered backward, breath broken. “W-why… why would she…? Why would Jenna want me dead?!”The Enforcer’s hollow voice echoed beneath the helmet.“She has offered your marrow as tribute.”Chris felt something inside him crack. “No… no, that’s not.... Jenna wouldn’t... she couldn’t... ”Marco grabbed Chris’s arm. “Kid, listen to me. We believe what the evidence says, not what your heart wished it was.”Chris shook violently. “I loved her… she was my life… she... she took care of me... she.”Lira snapped sharply, “She played you.”Chris flinched like she’d struck him. Lira’s mother, the ghostly imprint, stepped between them. “Chr
CHAPTER 11 — The Forbidden Stair
The hidden marrow door closed behind them with a thud that echoed like a warning. Chris flinched. “That door isn’t opening again, is it?”Lira traced its surface. “Not unless the corrupted Bonekeeper opens it.”Marco exhaled sharply. “Great. We’re locked in a crypt with a traumatized giant serpent, a corrupted bone-zombie, and whatever nightmare the nobles buried down here.”Chris swallowed hard. “Can you not list it out loud…?”Marco grabbed his shoulder. “Relax. In my professional opinion, we’re. ”“You’re not a professional anything,” Chris said.“Exactly,” Marco said. “So trust me.”“…That doesn’t help.”“It wasn’t meant to.”The corrupted Bonekeeper, still bowed, still trembling, turned silently toward the newly revealed stairway. It pointed down with its broken hand, bone shards clicking softly.Chris whispered, “Is he… leading us?”Lira nodded. “He remembers what happened.”“But his mind is…” Marco gestured vaguely at the creature. “Very crunchy.”Chris glared. “Marco. ”“What?
CHAPTER 10 — The Lower Sanctum of the Slaughtered
The deeper the bone serpent carried them, the colder the world became. Not cold like winter, cold like a grave that still remembered its dead.Chris shivered violently, gripping the serpent’s spine as it slid along the ancient tunnel. Bone-lamps embedded in the walls flickered to life at its presence, lighting the descent with eerie pulses of white flame.Marco muttered behind him, “I swear, if this thing suddenly decides it’s hungry” “It won’t,” Lira said.“It might,” Marco insisted. “Everything down here tries to eat him.”Chris’s voice wavered. “Please don’t say that right now…”The serpent hissed softly, almost… amused. Lira touched one of its ribs. “It understands fear. It was designed to respond to it.”Chris swallowed. “Designed by who?”Lira didn’t answer. The tunnel widened as they descended deeper, the walls expanding into a cavern so large Chris couldn’t even see the far end.Faint echoes drifted through the darkness, whispers that felt older than language. Chris’s breath h
CHAPTER 9 — The Fall Beneath the Bones
Chris didn’t fall. He plummeted. The fissure swallowed him in darkness, air ripping past his ears. He screamed until his voice cracked, arms flailing, nothing to grab, nothing but blackness spinning around him like the throat of a beast. “MARCOOOO !”Marco’s voice echoed somewhere above him. “STOP SCREAMING, KID, YOU’RE MAKING ME PANIC!”“I’M ALREADY PANICKING !”“PANIC QUIETER!”“That’s not how panic works!”Lira’s voice cut through the darkness, calm as stone: “Brace yourselves.”“FOR WHAT?!” Chris shrieked.The ground slammed into them. Except, it wasn’t ground. It was water. Cold, black water swallowed Chris whole, flipping him end over end. He broke the surface screaming, thrashing wildly.“HELP—HELP—I can’t—I can’t swim in the dark !”“Calm down!” Marco surfaced beside him. “You’re fine!”“NO, I AM NOT”Something yanked him under. Chris choked on water, kicking violently as something wrapped around his ankle. Panic exploded through him.He fought upward, breaking the surface wit
CHAPTER 8 — The Prince the Bones Chose
The moment Chris said “I accept,” the marrow-crystal obelisk detonated. Light, blinding, bone-white, violent, burst through the Chamber of Names like a shockwave from the heart of the earth.The walls shook. Dust rained from the ceiling. Bones embedded in the stone hummed so loudly it felt like the catacombs themselves were screaming.Chris staggered backward, covering his eyes. “WHAT’S HAPPENING ?!”Lira grabbed his arm. “You answered the call! The chamber is attuning to your marrow!”Marco ducked behind a half-collapsed pillar. “CAN WE UN-ATTUNE!? Because the ceiling looks like it’s thinking about killing us!”The obelisk split completely open, bone-light pouring from its core like molten energy. The ancestral specter, the crowned figure of swirling bone-dust, rose higher, expanding, gaining form, gaining presence.And then, it looked at Chris. Only Chris. Its voice thundered through the chamber:The prince has accepted his marrow. The bond must be sealed.Chris yelled, “I don’t kn
CHAPTER 7 — The Chamber of Names
The catacombs shook as the echo of the purge squad’s defeat faded. Dust drifted from the ceiling. Bones embedded in the stone walls vibrated with a low, ominous hum, like they were warning Chris to run faster.Marco helped Chris stand. “Can you walk?”“I—I think so,” Chris whispered, legs trembling. “My body feels like it’s made of jelly.”“Good,” Marco said. “That means you’re alive.”“That’s your medical diagnosis?” Chris croaked.“Hey, I’m not a healer,” Marco said. “I just pretend to know things.”Lira stepped in front of them, expression grim. “Move. We don’t have time.”Chris staggered after her. “Are more soldiers coming?”Lira didn’t slow her pace. “Not soldiers. Worse.”“Worse than purge squads?!”Marco muttered, “Depends on your definition of ‘worse.’”“Marco!”“Look, some things down here don’t need armor to kill you.”Chris paled. “Marco, please tell me you’re joking.”“You ever known me to joke at the right time?”“…No.”“Then yes, I’m serious.”Chris groaned. “I want a r
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