Chapter 9 · free to read
The Source was not a throne or a hell. It was a courthouse the size of the sky — the Threshold, where worlds waited on shelves to be closed.
The clerk showed him the true scale of the docket. Astravelle was one thin folder among thousands of foreclosures, none of which had ever argued back.
Being an Advocate, Kaito learned within the first minute, was a leash as much as a power.
The clerk moved to enter Kaito alone and leave the rest as property. Seraphine and Pip refused to be filed as luggage.
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