Chapter 13 The Reckoning
My father collapses into a dramatic embrace, clutching at me as though I am already gone from him, his body wracked with exaggerated sobs. His voice rises and breaks in all the right places, a performance honed over years of manipulation. Anyone watching might believe him—a grieving father, undone a...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Siege
2. Chapter 2 The House on the Hill
3. Chapter 3 The Stranger
4. Chapter 4 The Chase
5. Chapter 5 Fiery
6. Chapter 6 Wounds
7. Chapter 7 Souvenir?
8. Chapter 8 Whispered Conversation
9. Chapter 9 Fir Fen
10. Chapter 10 The Gaul's Judgement
11. Chapter 11 The Price of Peace
12. Chapter 12 Weights of Gold and Blood
13. Chapter 13 The Reckoning
14. Chapter 14 The Departure
15. Chapter 15 Breaking Away
16. Chapter 16 Leaving Rome Behind
17. Chapter 17 Shadows on the Road
18. Chapter 18 The Escape
19. Chapter 19 You Cannot Escape Me
20. Chapter 20 The Ride Back
21. Chapter 21 The Weight of Chains
22. Chapter 22 The Crossing
23. Chapter 23 More Than a Prisoner
24. Chapter 24 Ghosts of the Past
25. Chapter 25 A Vow in the Dark
26. Chapter 26 The Favor of the Tribe
27. Chapter 27 Before the Dawn Broke
28. Chapter 28 The Quiet Between Us
29. Chapter 29 The Breaking Point
30. Chapter 30 Brother-Rooted Betrayal
31. Chapter 31 A Vow of Shields
32. Chapter 32 The River Between
33. Chapter 33 Firelight Confessions
34. Chapter 34 Somewhere to Belong
35. Chapter 35 Where the Mist Touches
36. Chapter 36 Merchandise
37. Chapter 37 Ash and Ember
38. Chapter 38 What I Carry
39. Chapter 39 Salt on the Wind
40. Chapter 40 The Shape of Trust
41. Chapter 41 Standing
42. Chapter 42 Among Wolves
43. Chapter 43 What is Given
44. Chapter 44 Seen
45. Chapter 45 The Quiet Between Fires
46. Chapter 46 What He Guards
47. Chapter 47 The Shadows Remember
48. Chapter 48 Blood In the Trees
49. Chapter 49 Carried Home
50. Chapter 50 What the Dawn Brought
51. Chapter 51 Setting Sail
52. Chapter 52 Salt in the Blood
53. Chapter 53 The Weight of Almost
54. Chapter 54 Between Sky and Sea
55. Chapter 55 Trial by Salt
56. Chapter 56 What Isn't Said
57. Chapter 57 Landfall
58. Chapter 58 Moyrah
59. Chapter 59 After the Noise
60. Chapter 60 Echoes
61. Chapter 61 What Lingers
62. Chapter 62 Measuring
63. Chapter 63 Hearthlight
64. Chapter 64 What Takes Root
65. Chapter 65 The Cold Place
66. Chapter 66 The Weight of Law
67. Chapter 67 The Murmur Made Public
68. Chapter 68 The Space Between
69. Chapter 69 The Vigil
70. Chapter 70 At First Light
71. Chapter 71 After the Witness
72. Chapter 72 Among Them
73. Chapter 73 The Quiet Turning
74. Chapter 74 The Space that Moves
75. Chapter 75 The Seam That will Not Split
76. Chapter 76 The Weight of Influence
77. Chapter 77 What Changes
78. Chapter 78 Old Wounds
79. Chapter 79 The Line
80. Chapter 80 The Window
81. Chapter 81 My Return
82. Chapter 82 My Decision
83. Chapter 83 The Promise
84. Chapter 84 Epilogue — The Day the Storm Became Home
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