Chapter 53 The Cost of Standing
The council did not deliberate long.
They never did when fear outweighed reason.
By nightfall, the city felt it—the shift in the air, the way magic tightened like a drawn wire beneath the streets. Bells were not rung, not publicly, but sigils flared in private chambers and sealed corridors, and or...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Condemnation
2. Chapter 2 The Assignment
3. Chapter 3 First Sparks
4. Chapter 4 Journal Fragment Reveals Prophecy
5. Chapter 5 Ivanca Questions Duty
6. Chapter 6 THE FIRST ESCAPE
7. Chapter 7 THE INTERROGATION ROOM
8. Chapter 8 THE CELLS BELOW
9. Chapter 9 The First Echo
10. Chapter 10 INTO THE DARK
11. Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11
12. Chapter 12 A Warning in the Dark
13. Chapter 13 Fractured Orders
14. Chapter 14 The New Warden
15. Chapter 15 The Warden Without a Charge
16. Chapter 16 Shadows in the Cells
17. Chapter 17 Shadows of Reassignment
18. Chapter 18 The Unseen Pressure
19. Chapter 19 THE FRACTURED HANDOVER
20. Chapter 20 The Weight of an Anchor
21. Chapter 21 Lines Drawn
22. Chapter 22 Threads of Defiance
23. Chapter 23 Fractured Orders
24. Chapter 24 The Council’s Shadow
25. Chapter 25 Dawn of the Observation
26. Chapter 26 The Weight That Pulls Them Together
27. Chapter 27 The Edges of Loyalty
28. Chapter 28 The Weight of Echoes
29. Chapter 29 The Weight of Being Chosen
30. Chapter 30 What the Council Cannot Name
31. Chapter 31 The Space Between Orders
32. Chapter 32 Quiet Is Never Empty
33. Chapter 33 Observation Is a Weapon
34. Chapter 34 Irregularity Protocol
35. Chapter 35 Articles of Containment
36. Chapter 36 The Silence That Answers Back
37. Chapter 37 Suspension Is Not Silence
38. Chapter 38 The Vault Does Not Sleep
39. Chapter 39 Fracture Lines
40. Chapter 40 The Point of No Return
41. Chapter 41 The Kingdom Wakes Hungry
42. Chapter 42 The Line That No One Crosses
43. Chapter 43 When the Hunt Speaks Back
44. Chapter 44 What Hunts Between Heartbeats
45. Chapter 45 The Sound of the Net Closing
46. Chapter 46 What the Water Took
47. Chapter 47 Fractured Shadows
48. Chapter 48 The Hunters Who Do Not Sleep
49. Chapter 49 The Cost of Being Found
50. Chapter 50 What the Kingdom Feels
51. Chapter 51 When Bells Mean Judgment
52. Chapter 52 The Witch Who Walked In
53. Chapter 53 The Cost of Standing
54. Chapter 54 Isolation Protocol
55. Chapter 55 The Price of Defiance
56. Chapter 56 Containment
57. Chapter 57 Fault Lines
58. Chapter 58 The Shape of Control
59. Chapter 59 The Quiet Before the Gate
60. Chapter 60 The Shape of a Choice
61. Chapter 61 The Price of Distance
62. Chapter 62 Where Glass Remembers Blood
63. Chapter 63 The Thing That Woke Beneath the Glass
64. Chapter 64 Fractures in the Light
65. Chapter 65 The Cost of Remaining
66. Chapter 66 The Archive That Breathes
67. Chapter 67 When the Ground Chooses Sides
68. Chapter 68 The Edge of Silence
69. Chapter 69 The Weight of Choosing
70. Chapter 70 The Fracture Line
71. Chapter 71 The First Crack
72. Chapter 72 What the Kingdom Fears
73. Chapter 73 The Fracture Beneath the Stone
74. Chapter 74 The Quiet After War
75. Chapter 75 The Seal Is Not the End
76. Chapter 76 Threads of Change
77. Chapter 77 Fractured Threads
78. Chapter 78 Whispered Warnings
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