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Shards of the Moon

Chapter 9 The Fire Between Us

Word Count: 670    |    Released on: 06/05/2025

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illed f

ce in their eyes. I had reduced them to ashes without a second thought. But stand

Just... st

mbered everything. Not just the

d me more than an

clouds as a spectral light danced across her face. Each passing second, I stole covert gla

n't know

as though they felt the same strange shift I did. The very earth buzzed around

n the wind, and for a breathless second, she

beside her. "Y

fore, I won't interfere with

don't need

"Then you shouldn

ss had never left my mind. It haunted me more

s i

t flinch. The fire on my fingers shifted, but she maintained her courage instead of a fear

't kno

re ly

I scorched the air between us. "You're

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d tent tabletop since the dawn began. I moved several maps out

consider me an enemy." "Perhaps I'm

equire ass

. "You're burning alive inside, Rael. You use your bloody tasks to ma

ghtly. "Stop feigning

cause I r

oked

to this life. "You were the boy who found me in the fore

to accept them because I need

eenage boy still lived within me despite

sed revelations when I said, "I f

r eyes. "And yet h

there together amid an uncomfor

newfound fears about protecting her.

he said. "Just

ho'd returned from death, who

flames turned dull

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1 Chapter 1 Whispers Under the Blood Moon2 Chapter 2 The Flame Remembers3 Chapter 3 Ashes and Shadows4 Chapter 4 Ashes and Secrets5 Chapter 5 A Kingdom of Lies6 Chapter 6 Bloodlines and Broken Promises7 Chapter 7 Ashes and Promises8 Chapter 8 Dreams Beneath the Ruins9 Chapter 9 The Fire Between Us10 Chapter 10 Blood of the Forgotten11 Chapter 11 The Throne of Thorns12 Chapter 12 Shards of Us13 Chapter 13 The Blood Moon Rises14 Chapter 14 Shards Reforged15 Chapter 15 Where the Fire Rests16 Chapter 16 The Moon's Final Vow17 Chapter 17 One Year of Moonlight18 Chapter 18 Whispers Beneath the Ashes19 Chapter 19 Silver Roots20 Chapter 20 Whispers in the Grove21 Chapter 21 The Sleeping Root22 Chapter 22 Echoes Beneath the Grove23 Chapter 23 Awakening of the Hollow24 Chapter 24 The Hollow Speaks25 Chapter 25 Seeds of Rebellion26 Chapter 26 The Hollow Awakens27 Chapter 27 Shards of Her Shadow28 Chapter 28 Moonlight Requiem29 Chapter 29 The Price of Peace30 Chapter 30 Roots of the Future31 Chapter 31 The Chains of Light32 Chapter 32 The Whispering Veil33 Chapter 33 The Hollow Crown34 Chapter 34 The Dreamer's Cage35 Chapter 35 Flames in the Snow36 Chapter 36 The Night Before Dawn37 Chapter 37 The Siege of Ashen Gate38 Chapter 38 Fire Beneath the Snow39 Chapter 39 The Hollow Crown40 Chapter 40 The Roots Below41 Chapter 41 The Hollow Speaks42 Chapter 42 Threads Unraveled43 Chapter 43 Echoes of the Deep44 Chapter 44 The Unquiet Earth45 Chapter 45 The Chamber Beneath46 Chapter 46 Where Life Begins47 Chapter 47 When the Earth Breathes48 Chapter 48 Echoes of Resistance49 Chapter 49 The Path Beneath the Silence50 Chapter 50 Storms Remember Their Names51 Chapter 51 When Stones Begin to Shift52 Chapter 52 Echoes in the Grove53 Chapter 53 The Forgotten Hollow54 Chapter 54 Shadows Among the Roots55 Chapter 55 The Return of Ash and Memory56 Chapter 56 The Day of Choosing57 Chapter 57 Roots Beneath Stone58 Chapter 58 Whispers in the Deep59 Chapter 59 The Bone Crown60 Chapter 60 Write in Ash61 Chapter 61 The Tree and the Truth62 Chapter 62 What Grows After Fire63 Chapter 63 The Naming of Quiet Things64 Chapter 64 The Pact That Binds65 Chapter 65 The First Dawn66 Chapter 66 Ashes and Roots