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The Void didn’t attack the Citadel.
That’s what made it worse.
Two weeks after the training intensified, the reports started coming in from the borders. Whole villages gone silent. Scout packs found dead with no marks on them. Just… empty. Like the life had been sucked out.
“The Void isn’t dumb,” Kade said, pointing at the map where red markers spread across the eastern territories. “It’s not hitting us head on again. It’s cutting us off. Testing Aria’s reach. Seeing if she’ll feel it.”
He was right.
Aria was 6 weeks old now and she’d been restless for 3 days. Crying in her sleep. Gold eyes snapping open at random times. The Moonblood in her was reacting to something even before we got the reports.
Darius had the army spread thin across the borders, but we couldn’t be everywhere
