Chained by Hades, the Underworld King novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Eight Branches
They ran to the grove with the crown still warm on Ingrith's brow.
The cavern was shaking.
Silver light flickered through the pillars, and the air smelled of cold iron.
At the foot of the tree, the red roots on the stone had turned black.
Black ice crept along them from the far wall in a spreading web.
"The lake," Kaelor said. "He is pouring his winter down the crack."
The ice reached the base of the trunk.
Every root it touched went dull and brittle.
Above them the tree had eight branches, each hung with leaves.
One of them shivered.
Then it went gray from the tip, all at once, and the leaves fell.
Ingrith felt it in her chest.
It was a hard cold tug under her ribs.
She staggered.
Kaelor caught her.
"What was that?"
"One branch," he said hoarsely. "Ten years."
"Whose?"
"Yours and mine."
She put a hand to her braid.
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