Chapter 9: I Just Didn't Want Her to Hurt Anymore
Rune's POV
The moment I announced the Claiming was set for the next Moon Rite, the whole estate lurched into motion. The kitchen began stockpiling provisions for three days of banquets. The hunting party was dispatched to the northern slope for deer. The elders convened to draft the ceremonial orde...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Sixtieth Jar
2. Chapter 2: The Door Was Locked From the Outside
3. Chapter 3: My Wife Is Well-Behaved Tonight
4. Chapter 4: Her Seat
5. Chapter 5: Three Rings of Keys
6. Chapter 6: The Second Set of Footprints in the Snow
7. Chapter 7: They Put the Letter Back
8. Chapter 8: The Brass Key with Three Teeth
9. Chapter 9: I Just Didn't Want Her to Hurt Anymore
10. Chapter 10: I Counted to the Twelfth Day
11. Chapter 11: He Took the Ninth Volume
12. Chapter 12: Maeve's Last Lesson
13. Chapter 13: Just Stand There
14. Chapter 14: Which Entry Point Did They Use That Night
15. Chapter 15: I Left Through the North Gate
16. Chapter 16: Keep Walking, Don't Look Back
17. Chapter 17: I Spoke Those Three Words
18. Chapter 18: Written Down
19. Chapter 19: No One on the Steps
20. Chapter 20: The Sound That Never Came
21. Chapter 21: Eleven People, One Long Table
22. Chapter 22: The Scroll Nobody Could Read
23. Chapter 23: Ash and Nothing
24. Chapter 24: Why Didn't You Come — Five Years Ago
25. Chapter 25: Her Hand
26. Chapter 26: The Northernmost Slot in the Fourth Row
27. Chapter 27: The Man Who Stopped Writing
28. Chapter 28: Kitchen, Deceased
29. Chapter 29: Where Were You, Those First Three Days
30. Chapter 30: The Name Is on Record
31. Chapter 31: He Smelled My Wrist
32. Chapter 32: He Cannot Say Her Name
33. Chapter 33: The White Dress
34. Chapter 34: You Don't Have to Take the Name
35. Chapter 35: Her Room
36. Chapter 36: The Knife
37. Chapter 37: Greygate
38. Chapter 38: My Name Is Voss
39. Chapter 39: Ask Me, Then
40. Chapter 40: The Sixty-First Jar
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