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The Moonstone Broke - Ep
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00:07my best friend stole my future alpha on bonding day she wore my luna gown he followed half-dressed
00:13marked i smiled and gave my blessing because the moment he touched me my grandmother's moonstone
00:18charm shattered she said if it breaks run a catastrophe was averted whoever was closest
00:24got what was meant for me that morning chantelle claimed it was an accident i put on your luna
00:30gown by mistake and ian drank too much he didn't even realize who who he was with
00:35chantelle in my torn gown marks everywhere ian wouldn't look at me
00:42my dad kicked him to the floor ian hugged me caitlin i messed up but we can't ignore what
00:48happened please just let us be happy i'd always said no everyone expected me to explode instead
00:55i smiled so go ahead you two can complete the bond today right here ian breathed out like i'd freed
01:03him caitlin hale you're really letting these two trash wolves get away with this get on my mother
01:11screamed i'd humiliated our family i grabbed both of them and pulled them away before they lost
01:16control they were shaking with rage at the corner of the hallway i reached inside my dress and took
01:22out the moonstone charm my grandma had left me or rather what was left of it it had split clean
01:28in
01:28half the second they saw it all the anger drained from their faces mom dad grandmom's charm broke
01:39now it was in two pieces in my hand
01:43mom grabbed my wrist and hauled me into the elevator
01:46she stared at the broken moonstone then at me this just happened dad's face went from red to gray
01:52his nose trembled no way then it broke when ian hugs me
02:01mom and dad exchanged a look panic on their faces hit me harder than anything upstairs
02:05the moonstone charm was no ordinary keepsake
02:10it was meant to intercept one catastrophe for me just one if it broke something catastrophic had
02:15just been diverted
02:15we're moving now hurry outside my parents kicked for ian's photo stands and took mine
02:21mom told the coordinator every word every photo every image nothing with my name could stay i pulled
02:29out my phone and deleted everything of ian his number his photos his contact info everything we fled
02:37the lodge in a panic that same night my whole family left the city the reason my whole family
02:43panicked that hard was the moonstone charm my grandma wasn't just an old woman with stories
02:48she was the seer the day she died was a bright winter afternoon she was sitting in the yard in
02:52her rock
02:52when she called my name caitlin i was eight she took off the moonstone charm she had worn her whole
02:58life
02:59and tied it around my neck she told me to keep it on never take it off if it ever
03:03broke it meant it
03:03had just blocked disaster for me then i had to run immediately away from whoever was closest when it
03:09shattered when the stone breaks it won't be bad luck it'll be ruin i didn't understand i asked her
03:14what kind of ruin she locked eyes with me and rasped three words three pines hollow three pines hollow just
03:23those three words then she leaned back in the chair closed her eyes and passed away peacefully grandma
03:30her funeral was huge not just our pack came important people from six neighboring territories
03:36showed up too that was how much her name still carried afterward i told my parents everything what
03:42grandma had given me what she had said then i asked them what three pines hollow meant they refused to
03:47answer instead they packed our bags and retreated to the city overnight years later all those buried
03:59memories came rushing back what happened between me ian and chantelle spread all over social media
04:06at first everyone dragged chantelle called her trash for sleeping with her best friend's fiancee but then
04:11people found out i hadn't screamed i hadn't fought i handed over the groom and the entire bonding
04:16ceremony without a scene and suddenly they turned on me now i was the coward the weak one the rumors
04:23got
04:23uglier by the hour but i didn't care let them talk chantelle stole my place in the ceremony now she
04:31was
04:31standing in the luna's place ian's publicly recognized mate and she loved every second of it she posted
04:37non-stop a diamond ring the size of a robin's egg a two million dollar mating token ian kneeling to
04:43fasten
04:43an old family anklet around her ankle closet after closet of luxury goods every post screamed the
04:50same thing she had won and her captions thanked me thanks caitlin and thanks to the version of me who
04:57was brave enough to chase love she said this time she was getting both money and love i looked at
05:03their
05:04fake happiness and laughed she had no idea what she had taken from me she took everything public bragging
05:09about stealing my ceremony like it was a bold love story overnight she gained half a million followers
05:14comments cheered for her then people found out my family had moved they called us cowards and losers
05:20i could take the insults aimed at me but when they mocked my parents i snapped i wrote in chantelle's
05:26comments say what you want about me but leave my family out of it and stop using me for clout
05:32chantelle never replied she just liked every comment that trashed me
05:35i shook my head the moon goddess sees everything we moved half a territory away mom suggested a nearby
05:43city but dad insisted on going hundreds of miles so we went that night i finally asked my parents
05:50what grandma meant by ruin their faces were stiff mom dad when grandma said ruin what exactly did she mean
06:01maybe it's time we tell her dad hesitated you tell her ruin how i asked what kind of ruin like
06:10a wildfire
06:11or landslide do you remember three pines hollow yeah grandma said it right before she died mom's expression
06:19turned uneasy she explained that three pines hollow was a settlement just beyond our old pack lands
06:24hundreds of people lived there then one night every single person was found hanging the warmth at
06:31the table died instantly i was stunned all this time i thought grandma had meant a natural disaster
06:37a flood an earthquake i never imagined something so twisted my parents both looked uneasy they answered
06:44together that place was under a curse we finished dinner but the shock stayed with me no wonder grandma
06:50had given me that moonstone right before she died that little stone had blocked something huge something
06:55monstrous grandma hadn't just read fate for others she had seen mine too just thinking about three pines
07:02hollow made my neck prickle hundreds of people hanging overnight that wasn't just tragedy that was a
07:08nightmare but one question kept digging at me why hadn't the charm broken earlier why only after ian and
07:15chantel crossed that line together i was still sitting there half in awe of how terrifyingly sharp she
07:20had been when my phone rang an unknown number caitlin are you okay caitlin are you okay it was ian's
07:30smooth voice i hung up immediately and blocked the number not after that night after that i stopped
07:36answering every unknown call i was terrified meanwhile chantel kept showing off online like she had won the
07:44world luxury cars designer watches gold silver late that night chantel went live she was dressed to kill
07:53full glam pale fur pack crest jewelry lounging on a couch inside the alpha estate like she'd been born there
08:01people flooded in praising her looks she played the part perfectly she said she was bored and wanted
08:07to spend time with everyone then she showed off a few designer bags and then because of the comments
08:13she brought me up again some girls are just not cut out for it even if you spoon feed them
08:19they still
08:19can't swallow it she laughed and claimed i'd never truly treated her like a best friend she called it
08:25classic insecure friend behavior and she leaned back and smiled wider she said i was probably hiding
08:31somewhere that my family ran the same night she and ian bonded her whole family ran away that night
08:37afraid that i would come back as the alpha's wife to take revenge lie after lie listening to her rewrite
08:45everything i kept thinking how the hell had i ever been this blind but while she was busy smearing
08:52me people in the live stream started noticing something strange wait did her closet just move
08:57did anybody else see that why does it look like something's in there chantel check behind you
09:06at first she didn't notice the comments then the chat moved so fast the whole screen seemed to scream
09:12at her to turn around and i saw it too the closet behind her was cracked open just a sliver
09:17in that
09:18narrow gap there appeared to be an eye you people are so sick you love trying to freak me out
09:25she
09:25insisted no one else was in the estate that night then as if to prove a point she walked over
09:29to the
09:30closet in her heels grabbed the handle and yanked it open a man in black leather tumbled out upside
09:36down and hit the floor expensive jewelry spilled around here don't let it touch me then he looked up
09:42not at chantelle but past her at something behind her he let out a raw broken scream dropped to his
09:48knees
09:49and started prostrating himself slamming his forehead into the floor until blood pooled
09:54chantelle froze for half a second then clutched her chest and screamed for help everything turned
09:59chaotic someone hit the phone the live stream crashed sideways after that i couldn't see what
10:04happened then i thought of what my mom had told me about three pines hollow and a sick feeling
10:08twisted in my stomach maybe this was the beginning of that ruin because i knew one thing for sure
10:12there was something old and wrong inside the alpha state now
10:19the break-in at the alpha state blew up online ian rushed back to calm chantelle i had been watching
10:26the live stream too but exited as soon as ian appeared that ruin was getting closer i wanted
10:31nothing tying me to him my phone lit up sophie my college roommate messaged me she knew chantelle too
10:39sophie said she heard what chantelle did and told me not to be upset i wasn't heartbroken anymore so i
10:45just thanked her i turned sophie down flat then she asked if i wanted payback that made me pause
10:51sophie and chantelle had always been close did i hate chantelle yes but go near her no she was
11:00sleeping beside ian standing in my place i turned sophie down flat she kept pushing trying too hard
11:06i got annoyed and muted her mom dad what is all this are we stocking up for the apocalypse cut
11:17back on those doom day novels but this time it's not that different we just don't know how long it's
11:23gonna last for the next month staying alive matters more i had to take time off work or quit
11:29staying alive mattered more and one more thing you're not watching those either they cut off
11:36every way the thing could touch us dad also told me to stop watching chantelle's live streams
11:44i blocked her account
11:48dad sat on the balcony smoking staring at red clouds
11:53this time somebody's done for
11:59we shut ourselves in didn't go out once my parents talk about three pines hollow was still vague
12:05but if hundreds of people really hanged themselves in one night what else could it be
12:10meanwhile chantelle and ian lived better than ever luxury stores yachts everything
12:15so the three of us shut ourselves in didn't go out not once
12:23until the middle of that month the haunting took hold at the alpha estate even with chantelle blocked i
12:28heard about it one night chantelle woke to crying it got louder sharper like a blade scraping through
12:35dark she realized it came from her balcony on the fourth floor no one should have gotten there unseen
12:41she looked over a woman in a white dress long black hair curled upside
12:46chantelle screamed servants came running balcony door locked nothing outside no one
12:53chantelle can you just swaned you ian's family said chantelle imagined it until the second thing
13:00ian's younger brother sleepwalked
13:03that night he dreamed of a girl in white by the pool he tapped her shoulder she laughed high-pitched
13:09and sharp the sound echoed through the whole estate when he snapped out of his heart
13:15then something dragged him into the pool two fingers jammed into his eye sockets he screamed guard
13:22one incident coincidence two in a row no chance two incidents in a row
13:31no chance chantelle told it all on live stream what happens in the pack stays in the pack we don't
13:37air
13:38any pack and stays will plagues where they go air dirty laundry on the web after i listened to one
13:43creator break the whole thing down a chill crawled right up my spine a chill crawled up my spine
13:51just looking at it made me grateful all over again for how far ahead grandma had seen
13:57this was just the beginning worse than three pines hollow i didn't want to imagine
14:05yeah what is it
14:11i sat on the sofa sipping red wine to calm my nerves silently grateful for grandma's foresight all those
14:17years ago then my phone rang yeah what is it you heard about what's happening at chantelle's place
14:22rice rice right yeah caitlin what do you think do you think somebody's taking revenge on her what
14:27are you trying to say that i did it because i didn't no no i'm not saying that i just
14:30mean
14:31maybe this is karma caitlin i heard your grandma used to be this famous seer that anyone in your
14:35family still know the old boarding rules no sophie was chantelle's go-between maybe even her spy
14:40they could keep dreaming sophie called not about chantelle at dinner i told my parents your grandma
14:46saw this too dad said grandma saw this too i nearly choked oh my god grandma was unreal this ruin
14:55can't
14:55be avoided the moonstone only intercepted it for you once only once as for everyone else they'll have to
15:01depend on their own fate as for that backstabbing friend of yours if they really want a chance have
15:06somebody tell them to go south of the city blackwood ridge there's an old rights keeper that can do
15:10anything that depends on what kind of debt has found their line my dad really was too soft-hearted
15:16honestly i had never planned to save chantelle but once he said it i nodded then i passed his message
15:22to sophie word for word and told her reflay it to ian's family they moved fast really fast
15:30go to blackwood ridge right away
15:37ian's family moved fast they sent people to blackwood ridge and brought the old rights keeper
15:42back that same night we stayed holed up at home like cowards we had just moved into a new apartment
15:49every time we went out we wore masks and avoided neighbors we couldn't be recognized or tied back
15:54to ian's line so far nobody knew we were the family mocked online my parents followed grandma's rules
16:00stay quiet stay hidden at first i thought chantelle might dodge this thing
16:04but we were wrong dead wrong someone in ian's family died the first one to go was ian's father
16:15it happened on the night of his 70th birthday he drowned the marks around the bathroom showed he had
16:21fought back hard and there were scratches all over his face either the alpha patriarch forced his own
16:26face into the toilet and drowned himself or something from inside the toilet reached up grabbed him and
16:30held him there until he died a birthday turned into a funeral ian's whole family fell into panic that
16:35doesn't make sense by the old rules your grandma followed even if the rights keeper couldn't stop
16:40the ruin he should have at least been able to slow it down but it's barely been any time and
16:45someone's
16:46already dead maybe this is just the debt coming due or maybe maybe they never found the keeper at all
16:54caitlin call and ask and remember do not tell them where we are i nodded and called sophie
17:03hey caitlin what's up that old rights keeper i told you about did you pass the message on or not
17:09huh
17:10well um caitlin where are you guys right now the second she said that my whole family went on alert
17:17don't worry about where i am answer my question first i did tell them about the keeper but chantel
17:23told me that keeper broke from fright what start over tell me exactly what happened we went to the
17:31ridge temple and when we found him from what sophie told me chantel went straight to ian with the
17:39message the very next day ian sent people up to blackwood ridge to find the old rules keeper
17:44and that same night they brought him back to the estate the man was gaunt skeletal and faded robes
17:50he walked the ground slowly listening to something under the walls then he told them the truth something
17:55the truth is buried deep within these walls and it is far more terrible than you can imagine
18:02the family moved out leaving him toward the house
18:08he covered it in paper wards painted sigils burned bitter herbs the place felt like a coffin
18:18guards heard nothing all night at dawn the family rushed back everything looked the same but the keeper was
18:25gone they searched old gentleman ian found him in the underground cellar curled up against dry storage
18:33bags the flower had turned black the keeper's eyes twitched wildly he kept muttering forgive me don't come
18:40back and gouged out both his own eyes grandma's moonstone hadn't saved me it had cut me out of a
18:52blood debt
18:54caitlin do you know any other way to stop this dad motioned me to hang up i don't know i
18:59said i didn't
19:00know and ended the call dad we have to go right now we can't stay here either we're leaving the
19:07province
19:23we left the province in a panic didn't even take our supplies we bought planes and got out
19:34by the time chantelle found our home address all she could do was curse us out to stay alive we
19:40headed straight for the countryside and checked into a hunting lodge
19:45good thing we ran fast they started calling me like lunatics hundreds of numbers but i had set my
19:53phone to auto reject this time the one who died was ian's younger brother found hanged a deep ligature
20:03mark around his neck but police never found a rope no cord no belt no murder weapon now chantelle was
20:12truly terrified ian's family scattered some fled overseas some begged the pack council for protection
20:19everyone tried to get away from ian's bloodline chantelle and ian brought in more warders more
20:24rights workers day and night dad just said it was useless back then even hundreds of people together
20:29at three pines hollow didn't survive what happened at three pines hollow was bizarre grandma foreseen total
20:36destruction she went there and asked if they had done something unforgivable crazy old woman get out
20:43they denied everything and chased her away calling her a mad woman
20:59that same night a child vanished from three pines hollow the whole village searched they found him
21:05trapped inside a dense blackthorn thicket the branches were covered in vicious spikes and blackthorn never grows
21:10alone it forms a living cage the boy's cries came from the center they had to chop the whole thing
21:17down
21:17when they pulled him free he was out of his mind a few days later the villagers begged grandma for
21:26help
21:27i cannot save you a few days after that the whole village was found hanged in their own homes
21:44no murder weapon no rope nothing overnight wiped out
22:04water give me water go away the people of three pines hollow had ruined a woman
22:10who was only passing through she came asking for our water
22:14the whole village helped to track her they locked her in an abandoned barn
22:25they starved her broke her
22:27whole week the sun brought her food
22:29he found her hanging dead rotting her white dress swaying in the dark
22:34her neck stretched too long by then she was no longer in her right mind
22:39whatever they did had broken her before death
22:42i thought three pines hollow was wiped out by hanging
22:46ian's brother was hanged too could this be the same thing my parents hated my guess
22:51don't go down that rabbit hole if your grandmother's charm hadn't
22:57blocked this for you the people dying right now wouldn't just be them
23:07a chill went through me if grandma hadn't left me the moonstone
23:12and if jen yet hin shantin hadn't stolen ian i would be the one trapped in that estate
23:20shantin had become my stand-in then the one who ran farthest died ian's uncle overseer hanged
23:26i noticed a pattern the farther they ran the faster the debt found them
23:32like something unseen was warning don't leave the estate
23:42could this be karma for stealing someone else's alpha
23:55the cheating was my fault my family's being punished now can you please save me i just shook my head
24:04cheating had only redirected the disaster there was something older underneath it all
24:09then ian had a dream a strange girl took his hand and said she would show him somewhere beautiful
24:14we're going she told him to lift the stone pressing on him he obeyed then to put his hand here
24:20and
24:20pass through the waterfall lift the stone he did that's pressing then to climb the mountain he did
24:24then to cross a stream she stepped over first and waved ian said okay and was about to follow
24:37the girl's face twisted she snarled you're awake chantel dragged ian back from the rooftop edge
24:44below was a 10-story drop one more step and he would have been dead the whole thing was caught
24:49on
24:50live stream ian finally understood lift the stone meant throw off the blanket pass through the waterfall
24:58don't go over unlock the door climb the mountain meant take the stairs cross the stream meant jump
25:11i heard about it it scared me numb this ruin could not be avoided chantel had told ian about
25:19my grandmother so now they were hunting for us more deaths from overseas the farthest runners died
25:26fastest chantel the first to see the woman stayed closest to the estate and was still alive i told
25:33my parents dad said maybe it was a warning not to run i asked if staying closer meant better odds
25:39they
25:40didn't answer i thought for a long time then had sophie pass along what i observed that same night ian
25:48and chantel moved back into the estate more than half a year passed ian's family was wrecked
25:54yet somehow ian and chantel were still alive people said they had escaped the curse they kept living in
25:59the mansion covered in the dead keepers then new updates came both had completely broken down
26:06their minds were gone they couldn't clean couldn't function barely recognized day from night
26:11the estate became a nightmare trash rotting food rats roaches it looked like a giant grave
26:19i thought the disaster was finally over then dad told me something that stopped me cold
26:26ian had been the child trapped in the blackboard thicket at three pines hollow
26:34his parents sent him to a hospital in another province that was why he survived he eventually came
26:39back to himself but forgot his childhood then he was adopted by a good family ian's father's line
26:45grandma had seen it on the night three pines hollow fell one person probably slipped through
26:51ian's age matched that boy the death had never ended it had changed houses changed names waited
26:58but i still told myself none of it had anything to do with me anymore
27:02then something new happened many people online said they had all dreamed of the same woman in white
27:07every one of them had watched chantelle's live streams
27:09i finally understood what grandma meant by ruin the live stream hadn't just shown the horror
27:16it had carried it it turned every viewer into a witness and witnessing opened the door
27:27when three pines hollow fell she had not harmed any innocent outsider she still knew who she wanted
27:33but now strangers who only watched through a screen were dreaming of her her restraint was gone the ruin was
27:40still spreading i scrolled through comments people seeing her on balconies by lakes faceless
27:50i closed the app outside autumn wind acorns falling everything looked peaceful too peaceful the net
27:57was tightening around thousands of eyes after dinner i helped mom clear dishes she could tell i was
28:06still thinking about it i asked if that thing could travel through live streams through watching how many
28:11people would die mom turned on the faucet with water running she said grandma once said that woman
28:18went alive hated being falsely accused three pines hollow said she was sleeping around but she was only
28:25passing through asking for water i froze she wasn't already like that mom shook her head they terrorized
28:35her until she broke they locked her in the shed by the third day she broke by the fifth she
28:41had
28:41herself i asked what she was wearing mom shut off the faucet a white dress almost white that night i
28:50couldn't sleep i held the broken moonstone grandma had worn it for 99 years i had worn it for less
28:56than 10
28:56it blocked one disaster then it broke for the first time i regretted not asking grandma one more question
29:04what was that woman's name that night i dreamed of grandma she sat in her rocking chair the yellow
29:09dog lay at her feet i crouched by her knees she called my name
29:15i asked what happened to the woman from three pines hollow grandma didn't answer she touched my
29:21head and said you just live well i woke up with a damp pillow
29:34next morning dad said he was going to town for supplies i went with him
29:41on the way he told me mom wanted to take me back home for a visit not now after things
29:45settle
29:46grandma's grave needed fresh soil also before she died she left a box under her bed they never touched
29:51it mom thought it was meant for me i didn't ask anything else in town dad bought oranges i stayed
29:58in
29:58the truck then my phone buzzed sophie we hadn't talked in a long time she asked if i had heard
30:05about
30:05ian and chantelle i typed yeah she sent a long message two nights ago during a shift change
30:13ian climbed onto a third floor balcony saying once i cross the stream i'll be home an orderly grabbed
30:20him but couldn't hold him he jumped he didn't die but both legs were broken chantelle was completely
30:26gone she didn't recognize anyone every day she hugged ian's suit jacket repeating
30:33it wasn't me i wasn't the one who locked you up don't come for me sophie's last message
30:42if i hadn't given her that ceremony would the one in the hospital be me i locked the screen
30:48outside dad looked old half his hair had gone white since grandma's warning if the charm breaks
30:54leave immediately they had spent their lives running from hometown to city to another province
31:00to this little town beyond any packland they had done nothing wrong grandma saw it coming
31:08they believed her and used everything to keep me alive ian died with the first snow of winter
31:14sophie sent the news post-op infection multiple organ failure chantelle was sent back to her family
31:20still the same if not controlled she hit people and screamed no one dared live in the estate now
31:26listed for sale for six months no buyers people said you could hear crying from inside at night
31:33i deleted the screenshot winter came the oak tree was there this little town was quiet no one knew we
31:40had escaped such a large disaster the hashtag about the woman in white was scrubbed from trending
31:45not because it ended but because it was too strange and dangerous under the silence the dreams still
31:52happened five springs passed people forgot only we were still alive hiding like survivors on stolen
31:59time eventually we stepped out the air felt clean i was tired not from surviving one terrible thing but
32:07from half a life tied to prophecy i wanted to see the ocean my parents nodded i took a train
32:13east the ocean
32:14opened up waves rolled in endless the wind was wet and salty i stood at the shore my whole life
32:22i had
32:22lived inside prophecy dragged by invisible ropes what was on the other side of the sea the waves answered
32:28nothing maybe the other side was just another sea and the far shore every chained person longs for is
32:35not a place it is learning to live with the water already inside under the open moon with no bond
32:41and no
32:41pack i let out a slow breath for the first time in five years i was not waiting for the
32:47next prophecy
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