Chapter 25 They Don’t Strike the Root
The land didn’t celebrate.
That was the first thing I noticed after the anchoring settled into my bones. There was no surge of triumph, no sense of victory humming through stone or soil. The forest remained watchful, the house alert but restrained—like everything was waiting for the next inevitable...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Night Everything Bled
2. Chapter 2 Ghosts Don’t Use My Shower
3. Chapter 3 The First Warning
4. Chapter 4 The Man Who Comes Back
5. Chapter 5 Five Minutes to Run
6. Chapter 6 Pack Land Is Not Neutral Ground
7. Chapter 7 The Room That Locks from the Outside
8. Chapter 8 The Cost of Wandering
9. Chapter 9 Lines You Don’t Cross
10. Chapter 10 The Debt That Breathes
11. Chapter 11 When the House Watches Back
12. Chapter 12 Standing Where I Shouldn’t
13. Chapter 13 Teeth Beneath the Smile
14. Chapter 14 The Instinct That Answers Back
15. Chapter 15 The Rule I Break First
16. Chapter 16 What Answers When I Call
17. Chapter 17 The Shape of a Choice
18. Chapter 18 The Trial That Listens
19. Chapter 19 After the Ground Remembers You
20. Chapter 20 The Enemy Makes a Move
21. Chapter 21 The Trap Wears My Name
22. Chapter 22 The Moment Before Teeth Sink In
23. Chapter 23 What They Take When They Can’t Kill You
24. Chapter 24 Anchors Don’t Sink Quietly
25. Chapter 25 They Don’t Strike the Root
26. Chapter 26 When I Answer, I Don’t Beg
27. Chapter 27 What Comes Back Changed
28. Chapter 28 The Line I Stop Pretending Isn’t There
29. Chapter 29 The Space Between Mercy and Threat
30. Chapter 30 The Thing That Watches Me Watching Back
31. Chapter 31 The Space Between Control and Collapse
32. Chapter 32 The Hand That Slips Between Us
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