Chapter 988 – You See Duty and Call it Prison
Ely's breath caught.
Yue watched carefully, ancient eyes unreadable.
Sira looked tense now, all jokes gone.
Gula held her fork-spear but did not move.
Lullaby hugged her pillow tighter.
Then the first elf spoke.
"No."
Lux's expression did not change.
But Ely's heart visibly sank.
The first elf's eyes hardened.
"I know you are lying."
Ely stepped forward. "Ancestor—"
"No."
The word cracked through the shrine.
Not loud.
But absolute.
The first elf looked at Lux with something colder than anger.
"Kaelmor once said there would be a time when some people came and told me something like this. That they would say the debt was false. That they would say he stole what was owed. That they would say the blood was not true."
Lux's jaw tightened.
The bastard had prepared her.
Of course Kaelmor had not simply trapped her with force. Force could be broken. Chains could be cut. Curses could be purified.
