The Nature of the Host
Cage
Sitting hurts. Everything hurts, but sitting is worse because it requires coordination I no longer possess. My legs don’t quite listen, and my balance is fucked. I miss the chair entirely on the first attempt and have to catch myself on the edge of the table, breath tearing out of me as pa...
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Chapters
1. Welcome To Thornhill Academy.
2. Who and What Are You?
3. Room 304.
4. This is Definitely Torture
5. The Weave.
6. Homework. 
7. History and Law
8. Potions and Alchemy
9. Food Hall
10. A Filthy Mind
11. Learn To Use What You Have
12. Future Known
13. Dressed to Dance
14. Pet or Stray?
15. Every Girl Needs Stuff
16. I Like My Arm Attached to My Body.
17. Everything I Never Dreamed Of
18. Building A Home I've Never Had
19. Is This Heaven?
20. Testing Every Part of You
21. Which House Will You Belong To?
22. Draconis
23. Obstacles
24. Alone In the Woods
25. Fighting For Life
26. She's Not Supposed to Matter
27. Mine
28. The Rule Book
29. Let Fate Deem It So
30. Time To Recharge and Kick Ass
31. Public Service
32. Not A Good Thief
33. Never Mine
34. Sweet Dreams, Asshole
35. The Shadows That Haunt Me
36. Done For
37. The Truth
38. Tell Me How
39. Babysitting
40. Enchantments
41. A Gift for Your Fated
42. Honoured
43. A Casual Lunch
44. Autopilot
45. Beaten By a Girl
46. Fate Given
47. Accidentally Shifted
48. The Truth Will Set You Free
49. Just A Little Longer
50. What I Never Thought I Deserved
51. Mine To Protect. Mine To Love
52. Need to Feed
53. Not A Delicate Flower
54. No Secrets Between Friends
55. Secrets Unfold
56. Tempers Flare
57. The Serpent's Veil.
58. Touch Her And Die.
59. He Will Keep Her Safe.
60. She Likes The View.
61. The Weekend Of Calm.
62. Whiplash.
63. My Tutor Abandoned Post
64. What Are you, Little One?
65. Balance Lies In The Many, Not The One.
66. Read The Leaves.
67. Character Development.
68. You Hung The Moon, Why Can't I Hang The Stars?
69. Round Two Of Terrifying Telephath.
70. Little Siphon.
71. Tall, Dark and Very Professional.
72. Bring Your Hunger.
73. A Starving Man.
74. Learn To Control It.
75. A Dragon Sized Tantrum.
76. Walk Your Dragon.
77. Seven Days.
78. The Storm Watches.
79. Preparation.
80. The Festival Awaits.
81. The Hour Is Upon us.
82. Five Fated Mates.
83. In This Together.
84. Do Not Act.
85. The Fates Made A Mistake.
86. Hummingbird.
87. Should I Hold Her Hand?
88. Between The Shadows And Nightmares.
89. Someone Who Can Match the Darkness.
90. She Held My Hand.
91. When The Other Shoe Drops.
92. Mine, Apparently.
93. Shadow-Napped
94. The Tail’s Betrayal
95. Sorted Our Shit Out.
96. Dead Ends.
97. The Pillow Incident.
98. Many Heartbeats.
99. Never Far Hummingbird.
100. Providing What She Needs.
101. Trouble Can Stay.
102. Put Out the Fire.
103. Take the Pain Away.
104. The Fun Part.
105. The Cycles Of Heat.
106. You'll Be the Death of Me.
107. Everyone Leaves Eventually.
108. Play The Mate.
109. Play the Player.
110. My Heart in Chains.
111. Shadow Demon Daddy
112. Fake Friend and Forbidden Mate.
113. Show Me What You Are.
114. Empty Rooms and Unspoken Things.
115. No More Waiting.
116. When Hummingbirds Cry
117. Whispers To the Council
118. Sparks In The Dark
119. The Girl Who Kept Running.
120. Crown of Shadows
121. Marks Of the King
122. The Queen Of Shadows.
123. The Queens Table.
124. Veil Between
125. Obedience Made Visible.
126. A Place to Breathe
127. Rest Now, Hummingbird
128. The Weight Of Want
129. The Water Between Us
130. Grab Hold of My Horns
131. Primal
132. I Will Wait for You in Every Life
133. The Shape of the Dark.
134. The Return
135. Temptation In a Uniform
136. The Report
137. Summond
138. The Distance Between Us
139. Fire and Tooth
140. Play Time
141. How it Feels to Care
142. The Devil We Know
143. The Silence Breaks
144. Good Little Solider
145. A Little Night Terror
146. A New Day
147. The Spark Beneath the Surface
148. Fracture
149. Echoes of Desire
150. If I Can Help
151. Mirror of Moons
152. The Space Between Hate and Want
153. The Quiet Rage
154. Daddy Has Rules
155. The Truth I Can't Unhear
156. The Inspection
157. Stress Test
158. The Dutiful Professor
159. Back in the Wilderness
160. Polished Shit
161. The Downstairs
162. The Price of Survival
163. The Night the Realm Screamed
164. The Professor and the King
165. The Price of Obedience
166. Fight #1
167. Fight #2
168. Fight #3
169. Guided by Memory, Shaped by Shadow
170. The Council Moves
171. After The Ring
172. The Silence of a Severed Bond
173. Dead
174. The Slow March Towards War
175. When the Bracelet Screams
176. When the Wild Turns Violent
177. Death Promised, Death Delivered
178. The Whisper and The Storm
179. The Path Forward
180. Everything He Saw
181. When She Said The Word
182. All the Roads That Lead Back to Her
183. Then I Stay
184. Built For War
185. Commander
186. My Fated Mate.
187. The Wrong Side of The Hunt
188. Before Dawn Breaks.
189. I Am Not the Girl Who Crawled Here
190. When the King Comes Calling
191. Ride or Die
192. Shatter The Wall
193. Rise of the Storm
194. The Finger and the Revelation
195. Where the Truth Begins
196. Bloodlines
197. The Ghosts Who Loved Me
198. The Name They Gave Me
199. Holding Her Steady
200. What I Was Missing
201. Four-Man Fortress
202. Perfect Formation
203. A King's First Duty
204. The Split
205. The Gathering Storm
206. Blueprints of Destruction
207. What He Gives, What She Becomes
208. Touch, Take, Release
209. The Girl Who Refuses To Die
210. The Dragons Arrive
211. When Armies Gather
212. Committing Treason
213. His Last Chance to Choose Right
214. Marked For Slaughter
215. Movement Without Panic
216. Apparently, I Missed Something
217. Before the Trap Was Sprung
218. The Trap Springs
219. Walking Back into Hell
220. Off the Leash
221. Correction
222. We Hold the Sky
223. The One Moment I Missed
224. It Was Meant for Me
225. I Love Like War
226. Contain Her
227. Forgive Me, My Queen
228. Because I Love Her
229. Ravenous
230. Corrupted Cravings
231. He Cares
232. The Price of Saving Me
233. The Nature of the Host
234. Don't Leave Me
235. Before She Adapts
236. No Time to Bleed
237. The Ward Line
238. The Signal
239. Knock, Knock
240. Containment Breach
241. Measured Steps
242. One Down - Six to Go
243. Feeding Ground
244. The Cage and the Relic
245. Holding the Reins
246. Uncaged
247. Still Standing
248. A Life, For Once
249. The Right to Rest
250. To Family
251. Second Chance
252. Stay With Me, For Just a Little Longer
253. I Need to Provide
254. A Plate Without Payment
255. Shared Space
256. Murder After Pancakes
257. Only Death
258. A Pause in War
259. Where Souls Drift and We Stay
260. Whispers of Forever
261. Brother, Sit Down
262. Christopher
263. The Weight of Leather
264. Depth and Distance
265. Into Formation
266. Valkyrie
267. She Is My Strength
268. My Soulmates and I
269. Leaving the Cage Behind
270. What Remains
271. Still Standing
272. Our Home
273. Under One Roof
274. Nest of Need
275. Mind's Eye
276. The Enemies, To Lovers
277. New Beginnings
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