All Chapters of THE HUMAN LUNA: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

15 Chapters

Chapter One: The Wolf at the Gate

Sera’s POVThe alarm bells of Thornwall hadn’t rung in three years.When they rang now, I was already running. I’d been in the war room, staring at a map that kept telling me the same terrible truth; we had food for forty more days, ammunition for twenty, and hope for about three.I’d been trying to find a fourth number that made the first three less fatal when the bells split the morning air like a blade.I grabbed my sword without thinking. My boots hit the stone corridor before the second ring died."What is it?" I shouted at the guard sprinting past me."The east gate, Commander. You need to see it yourself."That was never a good sentence. I took the stairs three at a time, burst through the heavy iron door at the top of the wall and pushed through the cluster of soldiers gathered at the parapet. They parted for me without being asked.I looked down, and saw just one man, one horse, no army, no flag, no weapons. I could see it from up here.But I knew who he was before I saw his

Chapter two: The weight of “Yes”

Sera's POVI stopped a few inches from him, studying him for a long moment.He let me, didn’t rush me, didn’t smile, just stood there in my yard with the morning light caught in his copper hair, waiting like a man entirely certain time was on his side.I sheathed my sword."I will give you my answer by sundown," I said.He nodded. "I will wait."I turned and walked back toward the fortress without another word. My guards fell into step around me. I kept my face forward, my spine straight, my steps even.I didn’t let myself think about the way his eyes had found mine on the wall before he had even seen my face clearly. I didn’t let myself wonder how he’d known exactly where to look.Magnus was already waiting for me at the top of the inner stairs. He’d his staff in both hands and his face was the colour of ash.He’d clearly overheard everything. I could tell by the way he was looking at me."Sera–" he started."Not now," I cut him off."You don't understand, there are things I need to

Chapter Three: The Weight of Yes

Sera’s POVMorning came grey and cold.I hadn’t slept all through the night. I’d sat at my window and watched the cooking fires light up one by one in the settlement below as people rose before dawn the way hungry people always do… because empty stomachs don’t let you sleep past first light.I washed my face, strapped on my sword, braided my hair back tight the way I always did before something difficult, then I walked down to the outer yard.I stopped the moment I saw him.Cael Duskborne. This early?But he was not alone this time. Six wolf guards in full Duskborne armor flanked him on each side, standing perfectly still in the pale morning light. Massive, silent, expressionless. Not a threat exactly, more like a reminder. A quiet demonstration of exactly what was waiting beyond Thornwall's walls.He stood at the front of them, still in that same unhurried way, hands clasped behind his back, watching me cross the yard toward him.His amber eyes moved to my sword, then back to my face

Chapter Four: The Gilded Cage

Sera's POVWe arrived at Dusk borne Palace by nightfall, which I suspected was deliberate. The palace looked almost impossible at night, lit from within by thousands of lights that turned every window gold, the dark stone towers rising against the sky like something that had grown there rather than been built.The gates were twice the height of Thornwell’s and moved silently, which meant they were maintained constantly, which meant this place had resources that would make Betha weep for an entirely different reason.I kept my face neutral.Inside was worse. Everything was enormous, beautiful and deliberately overwhelming ceilings that made you feel small, corridors lined with tapestries that told wolf history in vivid thread, floors so polished I could see myself walking across them. Warmth everywhere, real warmth, from fireplaces large enough to stand in.I’d spent three winters rationing firewood. I kept walking.I was given a wing. Not a room. Four rooms connected by an inner corri

Chapter Five: Eleven Days

Sera's POVI stared at him and didn't move.He stood one step inside the room, relaxed as always, watching me with those amber eyes that gave away exactly nothing. The firelight caught the angles of his face and made him look like something carved rather than born.I hated that he was attractive. It felt like a personal insult."You said we would discuss what this marriage looks like," I said "So discuss."He moved further into the room, toward the sitting area, where two chairs faced each other in front of the fireplace. He sat in one of them and looked at me with an expression that said well?I crossed the room and sat in the other one.If he was surprised I did sit with just a gesture, he didn’t show it."The bond has to be real," he said. "Not performed. Real. Wolf noble houses will be watching… If they believe this marriage is hollow they will use it against both of us.""Real means different things to different people, and–""In wolf culture it means witnessed," he cut me off. "

Chapter Six The Window That Shouldn't Open

Sera’s POV ; I did not breathe properly, this wasn't because I could not breathe, it was because for the fact that breathing right now simply felt like a permission that would allow something outside of me to notice me. The window was slightly covered by thick black curtains, it was night time and I could feel the cool breeze, the air was crisp and fresh.I also noticed that outside, the night time in Duskborne Palace was way too quiet, it was even more quiet than a graveyard, as if there was no single person inhabiting itI took a deep breath and exhaled deeply, and that was when I saw it.A tall dark shadow, it wasn’t passing, it wasn’t moving or anything, it was just standing there a little further off my window.For a moment, I didn’t read meaning to it, I didn’t see it as something to be alarmed or worried about.Werewolves didn’t climb palace walls like robbers at night, and security guards could never stand outside royal Luna vicinity like ghosts.But yet there was this shado

Chapter Seven: The Strange Figure

SERA’S POV; Cael stood there looking at me, just exactly the same way he always used to.He was calm, elegant and composed, with his hair a little loosened as if his thought had been interrupted rather than his sleep.What always struck me about him was that there was no guard, no entourage, no security, just him and himself alone.I surveyed his body from head to toe, and I could not help but notice that his hands were empty.“Hey, did something happen?” I asked him, wondering why he had such countenance. He glared at me and sighed, then his eyes went straight to the window, and then back at me. “Yes, something happened,” he replied, his face turning slightly towards the window again. I felt a tight nudge on my stomach.“What happened? Talk to me,” I said, already getting impatient and anxious.Despite the fact that I was pressuring him and rushing him to talk, he did not respond to me and answer my question immediately, and that alone told me everything I needed to know.I inhale

Chapter Eight

SERA’S POV;“That’s ridiculous.”Cael said nothing.Silence from him was worse than argument. I’d learned that quickly.I studied his face the way I’d learned to study terrain before committing troops to it. He gave away very little, but very little was not nothing, and I’d been reading people in high-pressure rooms since I was nineteen years old.“You’re not telling me everything,” I said.“No,” he agreed.“Why?”He looked at me steadily, without apology.“Because if I tell you everything before you understand this place,” he said, “you’ll make decisions based on incomplete consequences. And that will hurt you more than the silence will.”I stared at him. “That’s already happening.”Something moved across his face then. Gone before I could name it fully, but I caught the shape of it: not dismissal, not pity. Something that sat between approval and concern and couldn’t seem to choose. It unsettled me more than if he’d argued back.I opened my mouth to press further.Then footsteps

chapter Nine: A Hard Thought

Sera’s POVWith a deep breath, I jerked up from the large bed, the woods intact and noiseless as though they had been warned by their makers never to have their owner question their capabilities.I breathed heavily, my head spinning as if I had been on one of those playful wheels found in an amusement park all night. It was morning now, but the last thing I could recall was Mira helping me out of my formal dress. My eyes darted around the wing and its rooms, trying to fish out a particular unusual thing that could at least confirm the fact that something had happened to me and that I wasn't just gradually running mad under the influence of whatever it was I ate at dinner.I wiped the beads of sweat on my forehead, swinging the blankets off my feet in urgency as I tried to get off the bed. As soon as I bent to find my fur-like room footwear, a sharp ring sounded in my ears for quite a long moment, making me wince in pain. That was when it dawned on me, the memories of last night. The d

Chapter Ten: Triggered

Sera’s POVMy eyes widened at the scene I had somehow played a leading role in, unable to pull away as someone who was being kissed. And passionately at that, except he seemed to be the only one enjoying it a little too much.I folded my hands to keep myself in check because I could already feel my knees going weak, and if care wasn't taken, I'd be losing it in a bit.Lira's gasp made me uneasy, and I tried to untangle myself from the situation, but he held on tightly. Tight enough that it felt like he was trying to talk me into playing along with the act as well.And I did.To be honest, I was weirdly enjoying the kiss when Lira suddenly cleared her throat, making us break apart instantly and awkwardly."Luna, I came to remind you of your first day in the office today as the Luna," she said softly, her voice carrying a strange elegance.I nodded, finally letting my eyes land on her. Now I could see her clearly, rather than the brief glimpse I had gotten on the sacred bonding day.She

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