Chapter 69: Pregnant mother

Author’s POV...

The moment Caspian left the room, closing the door behind him, Lilith stepped forward and stood in front of Hazel, her eyes unreadable.

Hazel’s breath trembled, her hands curling into fists. "Hasn’t it sunk in yet?" she snapped. "I’m not turning it on. I’m not helping you find any damn babies."

Her voice cracked at the end, a mixture of fury and helplessness. But Lilith didn’t flinch. Instead, she offered a soft, almost broken smile.

"I no longer care whether you turn it on or not," she said quietly. "I just have some memories to show you."

"I don’t want the memories," Hazel shouted, her voice rising like a wave. "I just want to be free!"

Lilith didn’t respond with more words. Instead, she stepped forward, gently placing both hands on Hazel’s head.

"You’ll be free... after I show you this."

And then she began to chant.

The air snapped. The atmosphere shifted, thickening with magic and dread. Hazel’s world began to spin as the room blurred, folding in on itself. Light bled into shadow. Sound turned to silence.

And then...Crunch.

Hazel’s boots hit the floor of a strange, brittle landscape.

Dead leaves cracked beneath her feet.

She blinked. Everything around her was foreign—like she’d stepped into another dimension entirely. The trees were bare and the air unnaturally still, cold, and tinted in gray hues.

She turned and froze.

A girl stood by a large rock just a few feet away. No, not a girl...a woman. She was heavily pregnant, her body bent with pain, clutching her belly as she struggled to breathe. Her long dark hair stuck to her sweat-drenched forehead.

Hazel’s heart dropped.

The woman... looked exactly like her.

"What the hell..." Hazel whispered.

But this didn’t make sense. She had no memory of ever being here. When she gave birth, she was with Aurora. Not... this. Not alone in some cursed forest, crying out against stone.

Her body moved before her thoughts did she stepped closer to the woman, eyes wide, breath shallow.

As Hazel drew closer, the illusion cracked.

It was her mother. Lilith.

Pregnant. Groaning in agony. Writhing against the rock as if she was reliving something that should never have been remembered.

my memories?" Hazel whispered, dread growing in

But there

trees. The same barren trunks

to run. Left. Right. Through shadows. Over

matter where she went... she always ended up in the

same groaning woman...her mother, still twisting

echoing like thunder across the false world.

she

The

Lilith was in agony.

still whispered to herself through

You’ve got this. Push now. You can

her back arching as she adjusted her legs, preparing to deliver the baby herself. Alone. In the middle of a cursed forest. Her hands trembled

watching the woman who birthed

was surreal. Like watching a

and screamed

Her cries echoed across the

then two... then three but

sobbed, tears slipping down her face. "No,

forward instinctively, as if to help...only

the...? She

fingers went right through, as if Lilith’s body was made of

hell..." Hazel whispered. "You can’t hear

was

Lilith had said she wanted

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turned, her mind

I was born?" she asked the wind. "Is this what you wanted

sharp voices—cut through the forest like

see

None of them should

froze, her eyes

her swollen belly, her breath ragged. She was still in labor,

body screamed with every step, but

My baby has to

side, reaching out again but her hand went through her mother’s

she cursed. "I’m right here! Let

couldn’t....She couldn’t touch her. Couldn’t warn her. Couldn’t do

in a vision.

voices grew louder, crashing through

"I see her!"

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