Chapter 16 The Portal Opens
The house cracked at exactly the wrong moment.
Not with violence, no thunder, no explosion, but with a sound like old ice finally giving way beneath too much winter. A deep, splitting creak rippled through Midnight’s walls, traveling bone to bone, beam to beam, until Clara felt it vibrate in her te...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Prologue - The Night That Never Ends
2. Chapter 2 The Inheritance
3. Chapter 3 The BlackWood Nutcracker
4. Chapter 4 Nightmare Visions of Marching Boots
5. Chapter 5 Midnight Stirs the Curse
6. Chapter 6 The Opening
7. Chapter 7 Explosion of Magic 
8. Chapter 8 The Four Warriors Appear
9. Chapter 9 The Seal Mistress
10. Chapter 10 Introduction to the Curse Rules
11. Chapter 11 Shadows Whisper Her Name
12. Chapter 12 The Rat King's First Intrusion
13. Chapter 13 Lines in the Snow ( Warrior Dynamics & Territorial Tension )
14. Chapter 14 The Eve That Never Ended
15. Chapter 15 Gnawing the Frozen Hour
16. Chapter 16 The Portal Opens
17. Chapter 17 The Fall Between
18. Chapter 18 Carried Between Worlds
19. Chapter 19 The First Light Over Winterlight
20. Chapter 20 The Frozen Moon
21. Chapter 21 Ghost- Towns Decorating Themselves
22. Chapter 22 Where the Forest Remembers You
23. Chapter 23 The First Resonance
24. Chapter 24 What the Vale Withholds
25. Chapter 25 The Man Who Smiles at Storms
26. Chapter 26 Teeth in the Dark
27. Chapter 27 The Rat King's Claim
28. Chapter 28 The Mark That Waited
29. Chapter 29 Caelum and the Shape of Fear
30. Chapter 30 The Oath That Is Not Forever
31. Chapter 31 Discipline Is A Weapon
32. Chapter 32 The Trail of Instinct
33. Chapter 33 Nyx and the Weight of Flesh
34. Chapter 34 The Cost of Mending
35. Chapter 35 The Echo that Answers
36. Chapter 36 Emotional Cracks
37. Chapter 37 Elias's Past Leadership Revealed
38. Chapter 38 Aurelian's Private Loneliness
39. Chapter 39 Nyx's Nightmares
40. Chapter 40 Caelum's Devotion
41. Chapter 41 The Heat Between Them
42. Chapter 42 What Follows Heat
43. Chapter 43 Light Between Their Hands
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