Chapter 36 A Hug
(Umbros)
A hug… such a simple gesture. Mortals do it without thinking, reaching for each other as naturally as breathing. Gods do not. Comfort for our kind is seldom physical; we soothe through presence, through silence, through knowledge. The last time I was held this way, I was a child who sc...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 What Fate Has Planned
2. Chapter 2 Breakfast in a House of Wolves
3. Chapter 3 Strings of Light
4. Chapter 4 The Last Light of Day
5. Chapter 5 The Shift
6. Chapter 6 Not Again
7. Chapter 7 The Gates
8. Chapter 8 Selene's Offer
9. Chapter 9 The Guardian in the Shadows
10. Chapter 10 The Veil Pools
11. Chapter 11 Dawnside
12. Chapter 12 The Archives
13. Chapter 13 A Thread in Her Hands
14. Chapter 14 Hecate
15. Chapter 15 The Goddess's Quaters
16. Chapter 16 The Home That Waited
17. Chapter 17 Quiet Conversations In Starlight
18. Chapter 18 Eggs, Fate and Everything After
19. Chapter 19 Threads Within Threads
20. Chapter 20 A Thread Out of Place
21. Chapter 21 Understanding Fate
22. Chapter 22 Untangling the Light
23. Chapter 23 Where Souls Come to Rest
24. Chapter 24 The Shadow Beside Me
25. Chapter 25 Echoes Behind Us, Shadows Ahead
26. Chapter 26 The Keeper of Lost Truth
27. Chapter 27 The Taste of Mortal Things
28. Chapter 28 What the Shadows Notice
29. Chapter 29 Weapons of the Moon Goddess
30. Chapter 30 A Doorway I Didn't Expect
31. Chapter 31 Realms Connected, Realms Divided
32. Chapter 32 First Task - Going Home
33. Chapter 33 I Can't Stay
34. Chapter 34 What The Shadows Cannot Hold
35. Chapter 35 Pulled Between Realms
36. Chapter 36 A Hug
37. Chapter 37 Teddy Bears and Choo Choo Trains
38. Chapter 38 Teddy Bear of the Shadows
39. Chapter 39 Talking Furniture & Other Existential Crises
40. Chapter 40 The Passing Of the Moon
41. Chapter 41 A Ripple in the Moonlight
42. Chapter 42 Efficient, Unexpected, Lyra
43. Chapter 43 In Teddy Bear Pants, We Trust
44. Chapter 44 A Movie, a Moon Goddess, and a Maybe
45. Chapter 45 Coffee Lives with Me Now
46. Chapter 46 Late For Lunch
47. Chapter 47 Inevitability
48. Chapter 48 Back to Work
49. Chapter 49 Second Chances
50. Chapter 50 You Did Well
51. Chapter 51 Enough
52. Chapter 52 One More Look
53. Chapter 53 What Fate Allows
54. Chapter 54 Below
55. Chapter 55 Come See
56. Chapter 56 Alignment
57. Chapter 57 Blackridge, Reclaimed
58. Chapter 58 Before It Pulls
59. Chapter 59 Pressure Systems
60. Chapter 60 Too Close, Too Useful
61. Chapter 61 An Echo Where There Was None
62. Chapter 62 By The Fire
63. Chapter 63 Be The Quiet Storm
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