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THRONE OF CLAWS AND FANGS

Chapter 2 The Silver Chain

Word Count: 1311    |    Released on: 09/07/2025

ck, breath caugh

k flame that cast no heat. His eyes were Asher's, violet and sharp. His smile was Asher's t

ad," Aeryn

r tilted his

issed shut with a rush of wind and frost, sealing off the world he knew. Before

nes in shifting colors-red, green, blue-pulsing in time with his heartbeat. The floor breathed beneath his feet. The

le. Runes crackled across the floor, forming a pattern that seemed alive. The ceiling was lost in

oots were heating up. Whispers echoed around him, but the faces behind the hoods remained still. A dozen strangers cir

o the circle. Her skin was grayish-blue, an

e?" she intoned, her voi

e ans

en conjured a short, curved dagger. Before he c

to jerk back, but the

pped onto the

idian. The surrounding runes ignited with violet fire. Sigi

me from

e," someon

bri

mina

something furious. "This child carries both

ll cradling his burning hand

ll, shadow-cloaked figure with silver embroider

what any of this m

is a luxury we

l staff capped with a dark gem that hummed as he approached. "He is under a

rs," the horned woman c

y." The staff bearer held up a shimmering sigil-black wax over bo

nt. Screaming voices. Spells

vanished in a gust of black wind

his staff and

. That's the last mer

denly dizzy. "Who

an was al

-

ver snow-laced cobblestone, pulled by no horses, steered by no driv

yways of shadow and smoke. Aeryn saw other students moving between buildings: one floated on a cushi

d the side of a massive m

Hollow

the sky like claws. Black fire flickered in the braziers. The air reeked of magic and memory. Flo

Aeryn stumbled out, boots crunching into ob

from the shadows

aculate: a black doublet with silver-threaded cuffs, and a House of Blood emblem s

ate," the

I was busy being kidnap

Lucien Damaris. House of Blood. "They've assigned

cky

o Aeryn's chest. His ey

. The silver had stopped burni

get that?" Luci

rother gav

step closer.

hed. "I...

en. That chain was

e meant, Lucien turned and wa

breakfast," Lucien ad

-

n," which apparently meant outcasts. It had no windows, only mirrors. No bed, only a platfo

, every muscle aching.

. The blood reacts to the glyphs

What did tha

, the fire in the hearth had burned low and his neck was sli

omeone else

ned his e

l. Thin. Cloaked in ragged gray. Their fac

into his throat wa

ed to be alive," t

n fr

sour and sharp. "You were meant

ryn asked

along his collarbone-not cutting, just tracing the si

ed back like the

emerged from

lded note-and vanished onto the wall. Litera

at up,

note with trembling

written in d

win. He

eath c

flared wi

is neck blazed with he

dn't

dn't

tared at

for it

f Asher w

e else want

ne had just be

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