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.

Hazel whispered, dread growing in her chest.

But there

trunks repeating like a

Through shadows. Over

she went... she always

same rock. The same

her voice echoing like thunder across the false world. "What are

response almost like she was not

kept turning. Pacing. Wincing. Her body writhing with every contraction. The pain etched

Lilith was in agony.

through clenched

this. Push

preparing to deliver the baby herself. Alone. In the

frozen, unable to breathe, watching

surreal. Like watching a

threw her head back and

immense. Her face turned pale. Veins bulged from her neck. Her cries echoed across

minute passed then two... then

wouldn’t come. "No..." Lilith sobbed, tears slipping down her

forward instinctively, as if to

She

went right through, as if Lilith’s body was

the hell..." Hazel whispered. "You can’t hear me... and now I

memory....This was

made sense now. Lilith had said she wanted to

why this memory? View the correct

her

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

voices—cut through the forest like

can see

None of them

turned cold. Lilith froze, her eyes wide with terror. "No..."

the ground, clutching her swollen belly, her breath ragged. She was

with every step, but her

have to survive. My baby has

rushed to her side, reaching out again but her hand went through her mother’s body like

cursed. "I’m right here! Let me

couldn’t touch her. Couldn’t

ghost trapped in a

wolves’ voices grew louder, crashing through the

"I see her!"

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