Chapter 40 The Hand That Reaches From Inside
The fracture didn’t come from the forest this time.
It came from the council chamber.
Three nights after the ridge stabilized, after the rogue hybrids retreated and the seam deepened instead of collapsing, the territory felt… steady.
Too steady.
Like something had gone quiet in preparation.
I w...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Night Everything Bled
2. Chapter 2 Ghosts Don’t Use My Shower
3. Chapter 3 The First Warning
4. Chapter 4 The Man Who Comes Back
5. Chapter 5 Five Minutes to Run
6. Chapter 6 Pack Land Is Not Neutral Ground
7. Chapter 7 The Room That Locks from the Outside
8. Chapter 8 The Cost of Wandering
9. Chapter 9 Lines You Don’t Cross
10. Chapter 10 The Debt That Breathes
11. Chapter 11 When the House Watches Back
12. Chapter 12 Standing Where I Shouldn’t
13. Chapter 13 Teeth Beneath the Smile
14. Chapter 14 The Instinct That Answers Back
15. Chapter 15 The Rule I Break First
16. Chapter 16 What Answers When I Call
17. Chapter 17 The Shape of a Choice
18. Chapter 18 The Trial That Listens
19. Chapter 19 After the Ground Remembers You
20. Chapter 20 The Enemy Makes a Move
21. Chapter 21 The Trap Wears My Name
22. Chapter 22 The Moment Before Teeth Sink In
23. Chapter 23 What They Take When They Can’t Kill You
24. Chapter 24 Anchors Don’t Sink Quietly
25. Chapter 25 They Don’t Strike the Root
26. Chapter 26 When I Answer, I Don’t Beg
27. Chapter 27 What Comes Back Changed
28. Chapter 28 The Line I Stop Pretending Isn’t There
29. Chapter 29 The Space Between Mercy and Threat
30. Chapter 30 The Night the Forest Chose a Side
31. Chapter 31 The Space Between Control and Collapse
32. Chapter 32 The Hand That Slips Between Us
33. Chapter 33 The Challenge That Wasn’t Meant to Be Won
34. Chapter 34 What They Took Instead
35. Chapter 35 The Structure They Didn’t See Coming
36. Chapter 36 The Cost of Consent
37. Chapter 37 What the Earth Has Been Holding
38. Chapter 38 The Voice Beneath the Roots
39. Chapter 39 The Attempt to Break the Seam
40. Chapter 40 The Hand That Reaches From Inside
41. Chapter 41 When the Other Side Feels the Shift
42. Chapter 42 The First to Cross
43. Chapter 43 The Ones Who Followed the First
44. Chapter 44 The Price of Leaving
45. Chapter 45 When Balance Begins to Strain
46. Chapter 46 The Line That Will Not Move
47. Chapter 47 The One Who Came In Smiling
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