Chapter 158 No Road Back
Cian
Morning comes too softly for where we are going.
Hollow Hill wakes around us with voices moving through the corridors and roots shifting gently above our heads, but beneath all of it, Bright Thorn waits in my mind.
Its polished halls.
Its flowered lies.
The cell beneath it where I learned h...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Rae of Sunshine
2. Chapter 2 What the Road Brought
3. Chapter 3 A Berry for the Beast
4. Chapter 4 Never Bargain with the Fair Folk
5. Chapter 5 How Not To Die Here
6. Chapter 6 Poor Human Girl
7. Chapter 7 The Kind of Beauty Men Ruin Themselves For
8. Chapter 8 A Beautiful Lie
9. Chapter 9 What Pleases Mortal Women?
10. Chapter 10 The Only Way Out
11. Chapter 11 Today Is Not the Day We Die
12. Chapter 12 A Very Human Answer
13. Chapter 13 Food For Fifty
14. Chapter 14 It's a Start
15. Chapter 15 Maybe One Day
16. Chapter 16 The Best Day of My Life
17. Chapter 17 A Chroí
18. Chapter 18 A Whole Other World
19. Chapter 19 Half Drunk on Moonbells
20. Chapter 20 All This Freedom Has a Fence Around It
21. Chapter 21 If She Chooses
22. Chapter 22 Head Down, Eyes Open
23. Chapter 23 Planning To Plan
24. Chapter 24 Pray To Every God
25. Chapter 25 Take Away Their Sunshine
26. Chapter 26 Mates
27. Chapter 27 All I Can Do Is Wait
28. Chapter 28 Today Is Going to Go Very Badly
29. Chapter 29 He Comes Willingly
30. Chapter 30 The Thing Between Us
31. Chapter 31 My Road and My Key
32. Chapter 32 I'm Not Supposed to Be Here
33. Chapter 33 The Other Half of My Soul
34. Chapter 34 Phase One
35. Chapter 35 No Second Door
36. Chapter 36 No Prince Slows at The Gate
37. Chapter 37 Freedom
38. Chapter 38 Her Name Is Rae
39. Chapter 39 Find Me A Road
40. Chapter 40 A Prince's Favour
41. Chapter 41 The Queen of Willowmere
42. Chapter 42 Exile
43. Chapter 43 Rae of the Mortal World
44. Chapter 44 Willow Cradle-Harness
45. Chapter 45 A Trail of Hope
46. Chapter 46 How Do You Feel About Leaves?
47. Chapter 47 The Easier Sin
48. Chapter 48 Caught With My Pants Down
49. Chapter 49 A Different Light
50. Chapter 50 Living Hollow Hill
51. Chapter 51 I Think I'm The Way
52. Chapter 52 Two Brothers, Different Prisons
53. Chapter 53 Spare Room
54. Chapter 54 Playing With Fire
55. Chapter 55 A Pull
56. Chapter 56 A Fae's Wet Dream
57. Chapter 57 No Body, No Burial
58. Chapter 58 My Court's Colours
59. Chapter 59 Flower Crown
60. Chapter 60 The Forever I Want
61. Chapter 61 Devoured By Fantasy
62. Chapter 62 Her Scent, My Sin
63. Chapter 63 I Hate You (Don't Stop)
64. Chapter 64 Mine To Ruin
65. Chapter 65 Stuck With Me
66. Chapter 66 A Heartroot
67. Chapter 67 All Eyes On Me
68. Chapter 68 Walking Magical Battery
69. Chapter 69 Gods Cursed Miracle
70. Chapter 70 A Beacon for All Courts
71. Chapter 71 The Court That Sees Too Much
72. Chapter 72 Breakfast In Glassmere
73. Chapter 73 Nanna's Recipe For Disaster
74. Chapter 74 Permission To Protect
75. Chapter 75 When Root Meets Road
76. Chapter 76 Ground Found You
77. Chapter 77 Stonefall Will March
78. Chapter 78 Emberwild Is Coming
79. Chapter 79 Nightfen Will Bring Blades
80. Chapter 80 No Greywater
81. Chapter 81 Barefoot In the Ruins
82. Chapter 82 The Cabin and the Cost
83. Chapter 83 Make It Smaller
84. Chapter 84 Bread and Battle Plans
85. Chapter 85 Human Bones, Human Blood
86. Chapter 86 Together On the Edge
87. Chapter 87 Magic and Warfare
88. Chapter 88 Moving Targets
89. Chapter 89 A Whole Realm Waiting
90. Chapter 90 Take Me Home
91. Chapter 91 The Deal Comes Due
92. Chapter 92 Washed In Worship
93. Chapter 93 One Human at the Centre
94. Chapter 94 The Road Remembers
95. Chapter 95 The Bones of Hollow Hill
96. Chapter 96 Before We Make War
97. Chapter 97 A Heartroot's Touch
98. Chapter 98 The Room Left Behind
99. Chapter 99 As It Once Was, So It Shall Be Again
100. Chapter 100 Alphabet Bugs
101. Chapter 101 Bug Court
102. Chapter 102 Simply Human
103. Chapter 103 Eat Your Mud
104. Chapter 104 A Weapon Without Swords
105. Chapter 105 Touch Grass
106. Chapter 106 One With the Magic
107. Chapter 107 Open Water
108. Chapter 108 The Distance Between Us
109. Chapter 109 No Way Out
110. Chapter 110 Beneath Water
111. Chapter 111 Speechless
112. Chapter 112 I Will Get My Heart Back
113. Chapter 113 Careful, Menace Bites
114. Chapter 114 Skyfall Stands
115. Chapter 115 A Court That Rings
116. Chapter 116 Do Not Listen
117. Chapter 117 The Drowned King
118. Chapter 118 They Should Have Killed Me
119. Chapter 119 One Way Ticket
120. Chapter 120 A World At War
121. Chapter 121 Hold the Circle
122. Chapter 122 Roots Do Not Ask Permission to Grow
123. Chapter 123 Sit Down, and Shut Up
124. Chapter 124 The Drop and The Ocean
125. Chapter 125 Bring Me Your Wounded
126. Chapter 126 Entirely Her Own
127. Chapter 127 A Place with Open Doors
128. Chapter 128 The Door Unlocked
129. Chapter 129 Enough Tea to Wake the Hill
130. Chapter 130 Fairy Funds
131. Chapter 131 Prepped and Ready
132. Chapter 132 The Best Day Ever
133. Chapter 133 A Gift
134. Chapter 134 At It's Very Best
135. Chapter 135 Fae Flat Pack
136. Chapter 136 What Is a Fleetwood Mac?
137. Chapter 137 The Fae Have Returned
138. Chapter 138 Girls Night
139. Chapter 139 Prophetic Roots
140. Chapter 140 Feast Night
141. Chapter 141 Thank Me, A Chroí
142. Chapter 142 Testing the Craftmanship
143. Chapter 143 Songbird
144. Chapter 144 You Are Not A Root
145. Chapter 145 A Family Matter
146. Chapter 146 Should I Leave My Fox at Home?
147. Chapter 147 My Egg Donor
148. Chapter 148 Oh No, Poor You
149. Chapter 149 Poison In Your Palace
150. Chapter 150 Babysitting
151. Chapter 151 Have The Life You Deserve
152. Chapter 152 Weeding Out The Rot
153. Chapter 153 The Love I Could Have Had
154. Chapter 154 He Kept Me
155. Chapter 155 Love Does Not Take
156. Chapter 156 The Woman Who Gave Me a Life
157. Chapter 157 Warm Bread and Fresh Paint
158. Chapter 158 No Road Back
159. Chapter 159 Name Within Me, Stay
160. Chapter 160 Tea Party or Feast
161. Chapter 161 Everyone Needs a Little Common Sense
162. Chapter 162 Relaxing Sounds Nice
163. Chapter 163 Sound Bath
164. Chapter 164 It Let Me Breathe
165. Chapter 165 A Life Of Love
166. Chapter 166 Choice
167. Chapter 167 I Choose You Too
168. Chapter 168 Skin to Skin, Heart to Heart
169. Chapter 169 Dirt and Love
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