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Chapter 184: Do not touch the arrow! · Oct 31, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: Four Sisters 2026-10-31
152 Chapter 152: There. See? You found something worse than the Rot 2026-10-31
153 Chapter 153: We leaving you with your bad face (Guess what cub said that) 2026-10-31
154 Chapter 154: Oh my God 2026-10-31
155 Chapter 155: Ugh. Ugh. Baby heavy. Miko tired 2026-10-31
156 Chapter 156: The Babies Moved 2026-10-31
157 Chapter 157: Blood Ritual 2026-10-31
158 Chapter 158: The giant just courted your female 2026-10-31
159 Chapter 159: My babies are getting too heavy 2026-10-31
160 Chapter 160: Someone Is Watching Ironwood 2026-10-31
161 Chapter 161: I’m also your baby 2026-10-31
162 Chapter 162: Why is everyone attacking me today? 2026-10-31
163 Chapter 163: If you behave like a lone survivor again, I will tie you to your sleeping mat 2026-10-31
164 Chapter 164: Twin daughters 2026-10-31
165 Chapter 165: Mama says we were cuter when we could not talk 2026-10-31
166 Chapter 166: Ancient subterranean mimic species 2026-10-31
167 Chapter 167: The Water Broke 2026-10-31
168 Chapter 168: I’m having babies 2026-10-31
169 Chapter 169: SOREN, YOU WHITE-SCALED BASTARD! 2026-10-31
170 Chapter 170: I liked that rack 2026-10-31
171 Chapter 171: Mama is going to be angry 2026-10-31
172 Chapter 172: Snake babies 2026-10-31
173 Chapter 173: Why is Swanly alone? 2026-10-31
174 Chapter 174: Can we see Mama? 2026-10-31
175 Chapter 175: Tiny Sisters, Tiny Fangs 2026-10-31
176 Chapter 176: Three Minutes to Live 2026-10-31
177 Chapter 177: Why do you always start with me? 2026-10-31
178 Chapter 178: I would rather die than betray my people 2026-10-31
179 Chapter 179: Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking 2026-10-31
180 Chapter 180: What exactly are you talking about? 2026-10-31
181 Chapter 181: The Night Swanly Lost Her Innocence 2026-10-31
182 Chapter 182: You made your males hurt me because you knew I wouldn’t speak 2026-10-31
183 Chapter 183: Hello 2026-10-31
184 Chapter 184: Do not touch the arrow! 2026-10-31
185 Chapter 185: Her Last Three Gifts 2026-10-31
186 Chapter 186: Although I remain available for future children 2026-10-31
187 Chapter 187: Talkative prince 2026-10-31
188 Chapter 188: Ancient creatures have terrible eating habits 2026-10-31
189 Chapter 189: What did he do? 2026-10-31
190 Chapter 190: I want a daughter too 2026-10-31
191 Chapter 191: hide-and-feed-the-postpartum-fox 2026-10-31
192 Chapter 192: A missing toof 2026-10-31
193 Chapter 193: DEER PAPA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
194 Chapter 194: Snake Papa Is A Bully 1 2026-10-31
195 Chapter 195: Snake Papa Is A Bully 2 2026-10-31
196 Chapter 196: DEER PAPAAAA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
197 Chapter 197: Miko made it fall out! 2026-10-31
198 Chapter 198: Snake babies were monsters 2026-10-31
199 Chapter 199: Did you just copy me? 2026-10-31
200 Chapter 200: She poisoned someone 2026-10-31

Chapter 184: Chapter 184: Do not touch the arrow!

”Hello.”

Nobody answered.

Nobody could.

The clearing had stopped breathing.

Swanly was still trapped against Kael’s chest when the first sound finally came.

A tiny wet choke.

Not from the tree.

Not from Azren.

From the ground.

Selka.

Brann moved first.

”SELKA!”

He threw himself forward so violently that one of the guards barely escaped being knocked aside.

The surviving males who still carried Selka’s mating bond reacted almost at the same time.

One stumbled.

Another clutched his chest.

Something had hit all of them through the bond.

Pain.

Cold.

Wrongness.

Brann reached Selka first.

He dropped to his knees.

”No. No, no, no.”

The arrow was still inside her skull.

Black shaft.

Dark feathers.

The point protruding horribly from her forehead.

Blood ran down her face in a thin red line.

But Selka’s eyes moved.

Barely.

She was alive.

”Nahla!” Swanly screamed.

The elderly otter healer was already running.

”Do not touch the arrow!”

Brann’s hand froze inches away from it.

His whole body was shaking.

”Nahla...”

”Do not pull it!”

”But...”

”You pull that out and whatever chance she has disappears with it.”

Whatever chance.

Not she’ll be fine.

Not I can save her.

Brann heard it.

His face collapsed.

”No.”

He carefully lifted Selka.

One arm beneath her shoulders.

One beneath her legs.

He pulled her against his chest like she weighed nothing.

Just yesterday he had told her he would accept whatever punishment Ironwood chose after she gave birth.

He had expected confinement.

Banishment, if they were merciful.

Death, if they were not.

He had spent the entire morning silently begging every spirit he knew for banishment.

Let her leave.

Let him hate her somewhere far away.

Let him regret mating her.

Let her scream that she hated him.

Let her be cruel.

Anything.

Anything except this.

”Selka.”

His voice broke.

She blinked slowly.

”Selka, look at me.”

Her rust-red ears twitched weakly.

”I’m here.”

His tears hit her cheek.

”I’m here. I’m right here.”

One of the other marked males dropped beside him.

Then another.

Neither spoke.

One simply touched Selka’s limp hand.

The other bowed his head so low his forehead almost touched the dirt.

Because no matter what she had done...

The mating bond did not care whether love had become regret.

It only knew their female was dying.

And it hurt.

God, it hurt.

Brann made a broken sound.

”Please.”

Selka looked at him.

For the first time since Swanly had ever known her, Selka looked small.

Not innocent.

Never that.

Just mortal.

Terrified.

Tired.

Done.

Swanly’s anger disappeared so quickly it frightened her.

Not forgiveness.

Never forgiveness.

People were dead because of Selka.

Nerin carried years of damage because of her.

Varek was dead.

Swanly’s daughters had nearly been taken during the attack she helped bring to Ironwood.

But this...

This was not justice.

Swanly had not even chosen yet.

She had been deciding.

Her blue-gray eyes burned.

”I hadn’t decided.”

Kael’s arms tightened around her.

”I know.”

”I hadn’t...”

Her voice broke.

”I hadn’t fucking decided.”

Soren heard.

His silver eyes lifted toward the tree.

Azren was still sitting on the branch beyond Ironwood’s boundary.

His bow rested against one thigh.

His expression had changed.

The stupid grin was gone.

He looked genuinely confused by everyone’s reaction.

”I thought I was helping.”

Nobody heard him.

Or nobody cared.

He pointed faintly toward Selka.

”She was running at my female with a sharp thing.”

Still nothing.

Azren frowned.

”That usually means kill the attacker.”

Lyssara was nowhere visible.

Neither were the other Veskari.

For once, the prince seemed to realize he might have badly misunderstood the mood.

...

A weak whimper sounded nearby.

Selka’s eyes moved.

Brann followed her gaze.

The cubs.

Three tiny gray wolf cubs lay bundled together in the hide basket.

One had started squirming.

Then another.

Their little noses lifted.

Searching for something familiar.

Their mother’s scent was close.

But wrong.

Weakening.

One cub gave a tiny cry.

Selka’s breath hitched.

That nearly destroyed Swanly.

She knew that sound now.

Her own newborn daughters made it when they wanted warmth.

Her sons had once cried for a mother who had not wanted them.

Children did not understand punishment.

They did not understand betrayal.

They did not understand why their mother deserved hatred.

They only knew:

Mama is there.

Swanly pulled away from Kael.

He caught her immediately.

”Swanly.”

”The cubs.”

”You gave birth two days ago.”

”I know.”

”You’re still recovering.”

”I know.”

She looked at him.

”Help me.”

Kael saw her face.

He stopped arguing.

Swanly moved toward the basket.

Her body protested every step.

Nahla looked up.

”Swanly...”

”Just this.”

She crouched with Kael supporting most of her weight.

The first wolf cub was tiny.

Soft gray fur.

Closed eyes.

Little ears still folded close to its head.

Swanly slipped both hands beneath it.

The cub whimpered.

”It’s okay.”

She lifted it.

For one strange heartbeat Swanly remembered Kairo.

Nilo.

Miko.

Three tiny bodies she had once looked at and thought:

Not mine.

God.

How wrong she had been.

She carried the cub to Selka.

Brann stared.

Swanly said nothing.

She placed the little body against Selka’s chest.

The cub immediately moved toward her warmth.

Selka’s eyes filled.

Swanly went back.

Second cub.

Then the third.

By the time she placed the last beside Selka, tears were running silently down Swanly’s face.

Kael knelt behind her.

One hand stayed on her back.

Brann adjusted Selka carefully.

Her arms were weak.

So he helped her bring them around the three newborns.

Selka stared down.

Her cubs.

For the first time, she held all three together.

Actually held them.

Not while screaming through labor.

Not while afraid monsters would crawl through her prison.

Not while Brann cleaned blood away.

Just held them.

Her expression broke.

One cub pushed its little head beneath her chin.

Selka made a sound.

Barely anything.

Then she kissed it.

Once.

Brann started crying harder.

”Selka...”

She looked at him.

His thick body trembled.

Blood from yesterday still stained one side of his hair.

His chipped tusk showed when his mouth shook.

She stared at him for a long moment.

”You’re still here.”

Brann laughed through his tears.

It sounded awful.

”Where else would I be?”

Selka swallowed.

”You should hate me.”

”I do.”

That surprised everyone nearby.

Brann’s face crumpled.

”I hate so many things you did.”

His hand tightened around hers.

”I hate what you made us become.”

His voice broke.

”I hate that Varek is dead.”

At the name, one of the wolf cubs whimpered.

Brann shut his eyes.

”I hate that I still...”

He couldn’t finish.

Selka did it for him.

”Love me.”

His face twisted.

”Yes.”

A tear rolled from the corner of Selka’s eye.

She gave the smallest laugh.

”You were always stupid.”

Brann lowered his forehead against hers, carefully avoiding the arrow.

”Yes.”

One of the other marked males turned away, openly sobbing now.

Selka looked toward him.

Then the other.

Her males.

The ones who had followed her.

Fought for her.

Obeyed her.

Been used by her.

Some died for her.

Some became worse people because she told them to.

Some remained anyway.

Selka’s breathing became shallow.

”I was...”

She stopped.

Coughed.

Nahla leaned closer.

”Do not force yourself.”

Selka ignored her.

”I was a bad female.”

Brann shook his head violently.

”Don’t.”

”Yes.”

”No.”

”I was.”

Her voice was becoming weaker.

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