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Chapter 13- What a Man Should Ask For
I didn't feel any pain at first.It was strange. I looked at the blade sticking out of my chest, and all I felt was cold, as if someone had poured a cup of icy water into my body. Then my legs gave up, and I fell forward against the cocoon. The old king's tearful eyes were right in front of me, and he was saying something that I couldn't hear."Kyle!" Borg's voice was far away. "Boss, don't close your eyes!""Shh... let him rest," the Silver whispered. It pulled the blade out slowly, and I fell to the floor of the throne room like a puppet with its strings cut. "He has done well. Truly, I'm almost sad. You were the best of them."The red light was fading from my eyes, and so was everything else. I could hear the keeper screaming. I could hear the Silver's footsteps walking toward the cocoon. I thought that this was the end. Strangely, it didn't scare me as much as I expected.Then the world turned black.When I opened my eyes again, I was standing on a floor made of black glass.There
Chapter 12- White Crown
The man in white armor walked down the steps of the throne slowly, like a noble coming to greet a guest.I tried to stand up, but the red veins on my legs squeezed tighter. Up close, his face was even more perfect than before. There was not a single scar on it, not a single wrinkle. His eyes were two silver mirrors, and in each of them I saw a tiny, shaking version of myself."Don't look so afraid, Kyle," the Silver said. "I said that I would not eat you. I meant it.""That's not the king's body," I said. I tried to sound brave, but my voice came out hoarse. "The king was in the cocoon. What did you do to him?""I did nothing. I only borrowed what he no longer needed." The Silver touched the crown on his head and smiled. "Do you like it? I made it from the thread that you were kind enough to cut."So that was why it was whole. It wasn't the real crown. It was a copy, made from silver and stolen light. But if this was the copy, then the real half was still on my hand.I looked at the m
Chapter 11- Voice
The red light spread across the floor like blood poured into water.I stared at the veins as they crawled toward the throne, and then toward me. The silver glow in the walls was gone, and the whole chamber was now bathed in a deep and ugly crimson. The air became heavy, and it smelled like iron."What's happening?" I shouted. "King! What did you want to tell me? The Silver does not only eat, it also what?"The king didn't answer me. The silver eye in the cocoon was looking at the floor, and for the first time I saw fear in it."It heard us..." he whispered. "It was never asleep. I should have known that it would wake up the moment you touched the thread.""What woke up?""The Silver! It also..." The king's voice broke into a hundred pieces again, and the voices overlapped each other like a choir that had lost its song. "...it also lies."The red veins reached the foot of the stairs. I stepped back toward the throne without thinking, because I had nowhere else to go. Behind the closed
Chapter 10- Sound
I didn't move for a long time.The breath came again, slow and heavy, and this time I felt it on my face. It wasn't warm like a living man's breath. It was cold, like wind coming out of a grave. Every part of me wanted to turn around and run back down the stairs, but where would I run to? Behind me was a hall full of ghosts, and behind that was a forest full of spiders."If it wanted to kill me, it would have done it already," I whispered to myself.I stepped into the chamber.The floor was made of the same black glass as the hall, but here the silver veins crawled across it like roots. They all went in the same direction. They climbed the steps of the throne, and they ended in the cocoon of silver threads. It was like the whole castle was feeding it. Or maybe the cocoon was feeding the castle. I couldn't tell which.I walked closer, one careful step at a time. The ring on my finger had started to hum again, and the mark on my hand was glowing so brightly that I had to squint. The nea
Chapter 9- Statue
The courtyard behind the black iron doors was too clean.There was no dust on the white tiles, no cracks in the walls, and not a single remnant standing in the corners. After everything I had seen in this city, it felt wrong to see something that wasn't broken.I walked slowly across the tiles, and my boots made a soft echo. The sound followed me everywhere, as if someone was walking a few steps behind me."It's just an echo..." I said to myself, though my voice didn't sound very sure.The iron ring on my finger was humming now. It was a low and steady hum, like a cat purring in the middle of the night. The silver mark on the back of my hand answered it with a faint pulse. Was the ring talking to the mark? Or was the castle talking to both of them? I didn't know, and I didn't like not knowing.I passed through the archway in the center of the courtyard and stepped into the castle.The hall inside was so big that I stopped walking for a moment. The ceiling was so high that I could bare
Chapter 8- Ruined Castle of Light
The causeway to the Castle of Light was a broken spine of stone. It stretched across a dry chasm that dropped into black nothingness. The slabs were cracked and uneven. Some had already slipped into the dark. I stepped carefully. The stone groaned under my boots but held.The castle sat at the end of the bridge. Up close, it was not made of light. It was white marble, polished smooth, but the surface was veined with silver. The veins pulsed slowly, like a heartbeat. The outer gate was shut. Two massive doors of black iron stood without handles. Above them, a carved crest showed a crown split down the middle.I walked past the statues lining the bridge. They were knights in full plate, frozen mid-stride. Their armor was fused with the stone. Cracks ran through their visors. Dust spilled from the joints. I did not touch them. I kept my eyes on the path. The silver mark on my hand stayed cold. It did not react. Not yet.Halfway across, the wind died. The remnants that usually lingered i
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