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Chapter 220: Make it stop · Oct 31, 2026

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201 Chapter 201: Is she sulking? 2026-10-31
202 Chapter 202: You did not miss me! 2026-10-31
203 Chapter 203: They are bullying me 2026-10-31
204 Chapter 204: It has begun 2026-10-31
205 Chapter 205: GET SOREN! 2026-10-31
206 Chapter 206: Bad Pa 2026-10-31
207 Chapter 207: You’re actually jealous 2026-10-31
208 Chapter 208: Why are you holding my daughter? 2026-10-31
209 Chapter 209: The Twins Transformed 2026-10-31
210 Chapter 210: They do not love us 2026-10-31
211 Chapter 211: We need more animals 2026-10-31
212 Chapter 212: You are supposed to be the adult! 2026-10-31
213 Chapter 213: You still cannot bite every person who scares a baby 2026-10-31
214 Chapter 214: You listened to me for ten minutes just to ask if I was done? 2026-10-31
215 Chapter 215: Little fox 2026-10-31
216 Chapter 216: Do not assume my people want the same thing 2026-10-31
217 Chapter 217: I stole you 2026-10-31
218 Chapter 218: You are not climbing the prince 2026-10-31
219 Chapter 219: Some are attacking animals. Some ignore animals and hunt beastmen instead 2026-10-31
220 Chapter 220: Make it stop 2026-10-31
221 Chapter 221: You get meaner when you’re hungry 2026-10-31
222 Chapter 222: They’re all hurting where they were hurt before 2026-10-31
223 Chapter 223: POTENTIAL DISEASE OUTBREAK 2026-10-31
224 Chapter 224 - 225: Stay back! 2026-10-31
225 Chapter 225 - 226: Perhaps threaten people less romantically next time 2026-10-31
226 Chapter 226 - 227: You hid a fever? 2026-10-31
227 Chapter 227 - 228: Is he going to die? 2026-10-31
228 Chapter 228 - 229: You grabbed my ass 2026-10-31
229 Chapter 229 - 230: Why are my children investigating my relationships? 2026-10-31
230 Chapter 230 - 231: Do not let children’s affection make you mistake your place 2026-10-31
231 Chapter 231 - 232: Stop trying to kiss your way out of trouble! 2026-10-31
232 Chapter 232 - 233: A breakthrough 2026-10-31
233 Chapter 233 - 234: I thought you would never figure it out 2026-10-31
234 Chapter 234: Meow 2026-10-31
235 Chapter 235: EVERYBODY SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN! 2026-10-31
236 Chapter 236: Could you stop bringing corpses when you’re courting me? 2026-10-31
237 Chapter 237: RAKU! 2026-10-31
238 Chapter 238: ROOFS! STORAGE PLATFORMS! GET CHILDREN UP FIRST! 2026-10-31
239 Chapter 239: Up! Everybody up! 2026-10-31
240 Chapter 240: UNKNOWN ORGANISM 2026-10-31
241 Chapter 241: If you die, I will be extremely angry 2026-10-31
242 Chapter 242: Mama… your hands… 2026-10-31
243 Chapter 243: GOOD GIRL! 2026-10-31
244 Chapter 244: If either of you bleeds on my patients because you’re too stubborn to bind yourselves, I will kill you personally 2026-10-31
245 Chapter 245: If we become stupid, we kill them ourselves 2026-10-31
246 Chapter 246: EMERGENCY PURGE INITIALIZING 2026-10-31
247 Chapter 247: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! 2026-10-31
248 Chapter 248: Absolutely disgusting 2026-10-31
249 Chapter 249: If they don’t care about me, I can’t lure them away just by fighting 2026-10-31
250 Chapter 250: DO NOT FIRE. GUNFIRE OR PROJECTILE IMPACT MAY DIVERT THE SWARM BACK TOWARD HOST 2026-10-31

Chapter 220: Chapter 220: Make it stop

The hunter looked at her.

”You think it’s Rot?”

”I don’t know.”

That answer made him more nervous than yes would have.

Swanly turned.

She had taken perhaps twenty steps when shouting broke out farther down the path.

”Get Nahla!”

Swanly spun.

A warrior was leaning against one of the support posts.

His face had gone gray.

One hand clutched the left side of his ribs.

”What happened?”

”Nothing!”

He sucked in a breath.

His knees nearly buckled.

Swanly hurried over.

”What hurts?”

”My side.”

”Were you hit?”

”No.”

”Bitten?”

”No.”

The male gritted his teeth and pulled aside his hide wrap.

A long pale scar crossed his ribs.

Old.

Very old.

But the skin around it had turned angry red.

Swanly stared.

”When did you get this?”

”Years ago.”

His fingers shook as they hovered over it.

”It hasn’t hurt since it healed.”

Another spasm hit.

He groaned and doubled over.

The old scar tightened beneath the skin.

Not opening.

Not rotting.

But pulling so hard that the muscles around it trembled.

”Don’t touch it,” Swanly said.

”It feels like...”

He swallowed.

”Like what?”

His face changed.

”Like something is pulling from inside.”

Swanly’s ears flattened.

That sentence went directly into the part of her brain labeled Things I Do Not Want to Hear Before Breakfast.

Nahla arrived at a brisk walk.

”Move.”

Everyone moved.

The elderly healer pressed along the warrior’s ribs, checked his eyes, gums, tongue, neck.

”No fever.”

She sniffed the scar.

”No Rot smell.”

The warrior’s mate stood nearby gripping her own arms.

”Then why is he hurting?”

Nahla did not answer.

Because she did not know.

Swanly looked toward the ground.

Her unease grew.

By midday, there were five complaints.

Not five identical symptoms.

That would have been easier.

One warrior’s old wound hurt.

Another male’s previously broken wrist began throbbing so badly he could barely close his hand.

A female complained that the scar where she’d once been clawed across the shoulder felt hot beneath the skin.

Then a Riverbone male stopped in the middle of carrying wood.

The logs slid from his arms.

THUD.

He grabbed both sides of his head.

The male beside him jumped.

”What?”

The Riverbone male’s eyes darted around.

”Do you hear that?”

”Hear what?”

He looked confused.

Then frightened.

”Listen.”

Everyone nearby stopped.

Children quieted.

A female carrying roots glanced toward the forest.

Nothing.

Wind moved through leaves.

Someone struck stone in the distance.

Normal settlement noises.

The Riverbone male whispered:

”Thoom.”

His friend frowned.

”What?”

”Thoom.”

He pressed both palms harder over his ears.

”It’s doing it again.”

Swanly had reached them now.

”What is?”

His breathing became shallow.

”The heartbeat.”

Nobody spoke.

Swanly’s skin crawled.

”What heartbeat?”

He looked down.

At the ground.

”Under us.”

Someone behind Swanly immediately stepped backward.

Another person whispered:

”Don’t say that.”

The man suddenly shouted:

”THERE!”

Half the people around him flinched.

He looked from face to face.

”You didn’t hear it?”

No one answered.

His fear became worse.

”None of you heard that?”

A woman grabbed her cub and pulled the child against her legs.

Raku pushed through the gathering crowd.

”Everyone back.”

The male looked at him desperately.

”It’s under us.”

Raku’s expression remained hard.

”How many times?”

”I don’t know.”

”Since when?”

”This morning.”

Swanly stepped closer.

”Does your head hurt?”

”No.”

”Fever?”

”No.”

”Old injuries?”

The male hesitated.

”My shoulder.”

He touched it.

An old bite scar.

Normal animal bite.

Years old.

Swanly’s stomach sank another inch.

She looked at Raku.

He had noticed too.

They did not speak.

They did not need to.

By afternoon, Ironwood was no longer relaxed.

People watched one another.

Mothers pulled children closer.

A sneeze made heads turn.

Someone coughing over smoke suddenly found three warriors staring at him.

Nobody wanted to say infection.

Because everyone in Ironwood knew what that word could mean.

Then a woman collapsed beside the food shelter.

Her basket overturned.

Roots rolled across the dirt.

A scream cut through the settlement.

”ENA!”

Swanly ran.

Several others got there first.

The female was on the ground, trembling so hard her teeth clicked.

Her mate dropped beside her.

”Ena?”

”Don’t touch her yet!” Nahla snapped.

He froze with his hands inches from his mate.

His face twisted.

”She’s my mate!”

”And if this is Rot, you’ll become another patient!”

That stopped him.

Barely.

Swanly crouched on the other side.

The woman’s face was flushed almost crimson.

Sweat soaked her hair.

She breathed through parted lips.

”Cold...”

Swanly stared.

”You’re burning.”

”I’m cold.”

A violent shiver tore through her.

Her fingernails scratched the dirt.

Her mate made a broken sound.

”Nahla, do something.”

”I am.”

Nahla wore something to protect her hands and pulled the woman’s eyelid down.

Normal.

She checked her mouth.

Normal.

Behind her ears.

Her throat.

Her arms.

Her legs.

Her back.

Everywhere.

”Help me turn her.”

Two females helped.

They searched every inch of exposed skin.

Swanly checked too.

Nothing.

No bite.

No scratch.

No black veins.

No rotting wound.

Nothing.

The woman’s nose suddenly began bleeding.

Her mate gasped.

A thin red line ran over her upper lip.

Then another.

”Why is she bleeding?”

Nahla grabbed cloth and pressed it beneath her nose.

”Hold still.”

The female’s eyes rolled toward Swanly.

”I can hear it.”

Swanly’s blood went cold.

”What?”

Her lips trembled.

”Boom.”

Nobody breathed.

She swallowed.

”Boom.”

Her mate looked around wildly.

”What is she talking about?”

The woman squeezed her eyes shut.

”Make it stop.”

Swanly stared at the earth.

The memory of Eira’s tiny hand against stone flashed through her mind.

THOOM.

No.

Not yet.

She would not jump to conclusions.

”Nahla.”

The healer looked at her.

”Keep her away from everyone else for now.”

The mate immediately protested.

”No!”

Swanly looked at him.

”I’m not saying she’s infected.”

”Then why separate her?”

”Because I don’t know what she has.”

His jaw tightened.

Swanly’s voice softened.

”You can stay where she can see you.”

He stared at her.

Then at his trembling mate.

Finally he nodded.

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