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THE HARD STORM
Chapter 40The storm had not yet broken, but Kaelen could taste it in the air.He stood on the edge of the northern cliffs, the wind clawing through his cloak, lightning flickering in the distance like restless fire. Below, the black waters of the Varin Sea churned against the rocks, throwing mist and salt into the air.Behind him, the campfire sputtered under the gale. The few men who still followed him — veterans of the fallen Stormguard — moved quietly around it, repairing weapons, checking supplies, speaking in low voices. None dared disturb their commander when he stood like this, staring into the dark horizon as if searching for something unseen.He wasn’t searching. He was feeling.The storm had always been a part of him — a pulse beneath his skin, a current in his blood. It moved with his breath, whispered with his thoughts. But tonight, it felt… different.There was something — someone — moving within its rhythm.He closed his eyes. The thunder rolled, deep and low, like a dr
THE VEIL AND THE VOW
Chapter 39 – The Veil and the VowThe palace had never felt so silent.Princess Elara stood at the window of her chamber, watching dawn crawl across the roofs of Vanyr. The city below stirred to life — bells from the harbor, faint echoes of traders shouting from the lower markets. But inside the palace, silence ruled like an unseen warden. The kind of silence that grew heavy with unspoken things.She’d learned to live inside that silence. To breathe it. To survive it.Her reflection wavered faintly in the glass — pale, composed, the picture of serenity. But behind the poise, her eyes betrayed her. They burned with the weight of sleepless nights and choices she could no longer ignore.For days, she had felt the tremor of something vast beyond the palace walls — a change in the air, in the rhythm of the world itself. It wasn’t fear. Not entirely. It was recognition. As though some part of her had known, deep down, that the storm would return.And that he would return with it.She presse
THE WEIGHT OF THUNDER
Chapter 38 – The Weight of ThunderThe mountain air burned cold against Kaelen’s skin.He stood at the edge of the cliff, boots slick with rain, his cloak torn and heavy with water. Below him stretched the valley—dark, endless, scarred by the faint silver ribbon of a river. The storm still churned above, its edges gnawing at the dawn. Lightning pulsed across the clouds, raw veins of light that flickered with each unsteady breath he took.The thunder answered him, low and alive.He hadn’t meant to call it. Not fully. But the rage, the fear, the grief—all of it had surged through him until the sky had no choice but to respond. Now, as the storm began to fade, he felt hollowed out, emptied of something vital.For a moment, he wondered if this was how the gods had felt when they tore their gifts from mortal hands—drained, almost human.Kaelen flexed his fingers. Sparks still danced faintly along his palms, ghost traces of lightning. He could feel the hum beneath his skin, wild and waiting
THE WHISPER BENEATH THE THRONE
Chapter 37 – The Whisper Beneath the ThroneThe thunder came before dawn.Princess Elara woke to it—not the gentle murmur of rain she’d grown used to in the palace gardens, but a deep, rolling sound that rattled the glass lanterns and trembled through the marble floors. It was the kind of thunder that carried intent, that seemed to speak.For a heartbeat, she thought she was dreaming. But when she sat up, the silken canopy above her bed shivered with each rumble. The wind had found its way through the shutters, tugging at the drapes as though beckoning her closer.Elara rose, bare feet silent against the floor. Her attendants would not come for another hour. That gave her time—time to be herself, not the carefully constructed image of grace the council paraded before the nobles.She moved to the window and unlatched it. Cold air poured in, biting at her skin. The storm rolled across the plains, heavy clouds bruising the sky. Lightning forked in the distance, striking somewhere beyond
THE SOUND OF DISTANT THUNDER
Chapter 36 – The Sound of Distant ThunderThe night stretched long and silver across the plains. Kaelen rode alone ahead of his men, the wind scouring the ridge like a warning. He could smell rain before it came—sharp and electric—and in it, something older, something that remembered him.For weeks he had moved through shadowed villages and broken paths, gathering what remained of the old loyalists—hunters, deserters, those who had once knelt for him and still whispered his name in secret. Yet tonight, none of them followed. This part of the journey was his alone.He reached the cliff’s edge overlooking the valley below. In the distance, the lights of Aramoor flickered faintly—a wounded city under new rule. Once, its towers had sung with the wind. Now, smoke rose where song had lived.He dismounted, letting the reins fall loose, and stood there in the pale gleam of the stars. The air trembled around him, thick with the static hum that always came before the storm.“Still running,” he
THE QUEEN FIRST LIE
Chapter 35: The Queens first lieThe message arrived before dawn.No seal. No crest. Only a strip of rough parchment, folded once, its edges damp from rain. The courier who carried it vanished before the guards could even ask his name.Elara found it waiting on the table beside her bed when the first light slipped through the tall windows. She was still half dressed from the night before, her hair unbound, her mind heavy with sleeplessness.She hesitated before touching it.Even that small act — reaching — felt dangerous.Five words, written in a hand she did not know, but one the palace scribes would have recognized instantly if she dared show them.The storm remembers the crown.Her breath caught.It was madness to think it could be him. Madness, and yet —She crossed the room quickly, shutting the windows, drawing the curtains. Her fingers trembled as she unfolded the parchment again, reading the words a second, a third time. The ink had bled in the rain, but the meaning was unmist
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