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Author: Maris Dane
last update publish date: 2026-06-20 16:12:51

THALIA's Pov

The morning light crept into the east tower like a thief, but it brought no comfort, only the cold, sharp reality that the walls were shrinking around me.

I did not wake up to the sun, I woke up because the air in the room felt heavy and stagnant, as if the very stone were holding its breath, and then the iron door groaned open and Constance stepped inside with her hands empty and her face drained of all color.

She usually brought my breakfast tray, but today she had clearly forgo
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  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   69b

    Afterward, I sat up with my back against the headboard and he lay with his arm across my lap. The morning light was fully in the room and neither of us was in any particular hurry.I read one of the archive pages Heloise had given me the previous evening, holding it in both hands, while he looked at the ceiling with the distant quality of a man running through something in his head. The room was quiet, save for the crackle of the embers in the hearth. The archive page felt heavy in my hands, a tangible piece of the history I was currently dismantling."She documented the swearing ground," I said, without looking up."The mountains?" he asked, his voice low."Yes. She mapped the route. She had sketches of the stones." I turned the page. "She had been there."He sat up slightly, his attention narrowing. "Your mother went to the swearing ground.""Eleven years before I was born," I said. "She went alone. She describes what she felt when she got there." I was quiet for a moment, letting t

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   69A

    THALIAThe morning air was crisp, but under the heavy, tangled furs, the world was pure, unadulterated heat. We moved with the languid, unhurried pace of two people who had finally stopped running.There was no urgency to prove anything, no tactical maneuver to plan, only the slow, deep exploration of belonging. I traced the lines of his shoulders, the scarred geography of his past—a map of every battle he’d fought, every wound he’d carried—and I felt him shudder under my touch. He was all power and restraint, his movements purposeful and heavy, claiming me in the light as he had in the dark.Every kiss was a declaration. He mapped the curve of my throat, the arch of my back, his touch lingering in a way that made me gasp.I wrapped around him, a storm of skin and friction, the bond between us singing a frantic, dissonant melody that shifted into something harmonious and deep.There was a delicious, agonizing slowness to it, the way he took his time, the way he forced me to pay att

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   68

    RAEL'S POVI came to her door at nine in the evening, and for the first time in three centuries, I walked slowly without a destination fueled by duty. Every other time, my stride had been driven by the heavy, iron-clad requirements of a king—the need for information, the management of a territorial breach, or the calculated extraction of a secret. But tonight, the corridors of the compound were quiet, the air cooling with the mountain night, and I had left my study not because I had a mandate to fulfill, but because the space in my chest felt hollow and cold whenever I was away from her.I knocked. The sound was a sharp, final punctuation against the wood.When she opened the door, the first thing I saw was the way she looked at me—her posture, usually guarded and ready for a parry, softened. She held a leather-bound journal against her chest like a shield, but her eyes, those infinite, void-deep eyes, were soft. She was mine. The realization hit me with the force of a landslide, a p

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   67

    I read for three hours without moving.The room had fallen into a deep, evening stillness, broken only by the occasional rustle of paper as Heloise worked. She was a ghost in the machine of the archive, moving through the boxes with the systematic, terrifying efficiency of a woman who had been building this puzzle for over a decade. At some point, Constance had slipped in, set a tray of tea and cold meat on the corner of the table, and vanished with the silent, perceptive grace that had become her signature. She didn't ask if we were hungry; she simply ensured that the necessity of food would not interrupt the gravity of what was happening.I set the letter I was holding face-down on the table. It was the seventeenth one in the bundle. My hands were steady, but my mind was spinning, tracing the map my mother had laid out.She had been a scholar. Not a hobbyist, not a dilettante, but a woman who treated history like a locked room she was determined to pick. The letters detailed how she

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   66

    THALIA'SI was standing in the courtyard exactly where I said I would be when Talos found me. He was moving with a specific, measured gait—the pace of a man who had spent three centuries navigating the mercurial temperaments of Alpha Kings and had learned that the secret to a long life was knowing exactly when to look concerned and when to look professional.He stopped a few paces from me, his jaw tight. "There is a woman at the gates, my—" He stopped, reset, and tried again, his eyes flicking toward the Great Hall. "There is a woman at the gates, Thalia. She has arrived."I turned, my gaze locking onto his. "How many boxes?"Talos blinked, his professional mask fracturing for a fraction of a second. "Fourteen, Thalia. Fourteen crates of varying dimensions, though most appear to be reinforced.""Is she wearing multiple scarves?"He stared at me, then slowly looked down at his own notes as if the answer might be written there. "Seven," he said, his voice dropping an octave. "I counted

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   65

    THALIA'S POVThe walk to the council chamber was different this time. It was not the trek of a prisoner being paraded toward her own trial, nor was it the guarded movement of a political complication being brought to heel. It was the stride of a sovereign moving through her own territory. I walked beside Rael, my pace matched perfectly to his, and for the first time, I felt the space around us not as a clearing of fear, but as a recognition of standing.I was not wearing the grey dress—the uniform of the tower, of the cell, of the invisibility I had been forced into since I was four years old. Elodie had arranged for clothes that fit with a precision that bordered on prophetic. The fabric was dark, structured, and moved with a fluidity that made me feel lethal and anchored all at once. As we entered the chamber, the air did not grow heavy with the old, rotting tension of previous sessions; instead, it grew sharp with expectancy.The council clerk was at the table, his hands steady th

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   23

    Thalia's POVLater that evening...The steam from the bathwater curled around my skin like a thick, heavy blanket, and I kept my eyes closed for a long time, drifting in the quiet heat while I tried to force my heart to slow down, because the silence of the tower was the only peace I had known sinc

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   4

    THALIA’S POVMy heart squeezed painfully in my chest, and I felt like a bird trapped in a cage made of my own ribs as I stuttered, “I… you, sir—”His gaze didn’t falter for a single second. He stood there looking like a god of war, tall and terrifying, while he growled, “I won’t repeat myself anymor

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   3

    RAEL’S POV“Witchcraft?” She stuttered, her face going pale instantly, before she started coughing and awkwardly swallowing her saliva.“Pardon?”I stepped back, the movement sharp and predatory. I refused to meet her gaze again; those gold eyes were too bright, too haunting for a killer. Don’t get

  • Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna   2

    THALIA’S POVIt had taken a whole night before the realization dawned fully on me—I had murdered two people and fled the scene. The blood on my hands had been washed away, but the phantom weight of it remained, pressing into my skin like lead. And what I had hoped on settling before dawn with my au

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