Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 356

Chapter 356 The Leak Value

Temperature deviation.

The conclusion arrived before I consciously reached it.

The stabilizer manifold had fractured.

Enough for seawater to begin forcing itself into compartments never designed to receive it.

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When the panicked logistics clerk ordered Beth transferred to Level B5, he’d unknowingly changed the flagship’s entire weight

distribution.

Opening the hydraulic partition… shifting cargo mass… operating the elevator under full sea load… every desperate decision they’d made had pushed the already stressed hull beyond the tolerance I’d calculated nearly an hour earlier.

The Sovereign Leviathan had leaned just half a degree too deeply into a trough.

Half a degree.

That was all steel needed before it remembered it could break.

It was leaking.

Outside my cell, shouting erupted.

“Get the bilge pumps online! Section Four is flooding!”

Heavy boots thundered through the corridor, no longer disciplined of measured like trained guards.

Three enforcers raced past my observation slot, splashing through water that hadn’t existed minutes earlier.

Greasy gray seawater poured from the ventilation shafts overhead, dripping steadily before becoming an outright stream that spread across the corridor floor.

“The cargo lift seal blew!” another guard shouted, nearly slipping as he rounded the corner. “Pressure from the trench is forcing water straight into B5! Cell Eleven is already taking water above mattress level!”

Beth.

She’d barely arrived downstairs.

The ship was already trying to drown her.

Another voice answered through the intercom, shrill with terror.

“We can’t isolate the compartment without sealing Engineering!”

“If we seal Engineering,” someone yelled back, “the auxiliary generators die!”

“And if the generators die,” the logistics clerk screamed, “the suppression grids lose power!”

Silence followed.

Not because the crisis ended.

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Because every single person listening understood exactly what that meant.

No suppression grids.

No silver restraints.

No electronic containment.

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No prison.

Through the narrow observation slot in my door, I watched the telemetry monitor mounted across the corridor begin flickering violently.

Green status indicators blinked.

Recovered.

The display struggled to maintain enough power to remain functional while seawater invaded the ship’s electrical arteries.

Click,

Flicker.

Pop.

The silver restraint locked around my wrist answered almost immediately.

Tiny white sparks danced beneath the metal band before disappearing altogether.

The relentless waves of suppressive energy that had spent hours drilling into my marrow weakened.

Once.

Twice.

Then…

Stopped.

Heat exploded beneath my skin.

Not burning.

Awakening.

Nyx stretched.

Not fully.

But enough.

The wolf who had remained buried beneath endless layers of silver restraints slowly lifted her head inside me.

Strength rushed back into my muscles.

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My breathing deepened.

The mate bond brightened,

For the first time since stepping aboard this cursed vessel…

I felt almost whole.

A smile slowly curved across my lips.

They truly believed moving Beth had protected their operation.

They thought isolating us behind layers of reinforced steel would weaken the covenant we’d formed.

Instead…

They had placed her directly above the very structural failure I had been waiting for.

How beautifully ironic.

I rested my fingertips lightly against the cold steel door.

“Renee,” I whispered.

I wasn’t speaking into a communicator.

I didn’t need one.

The Frost bloodline had never depended solely on technology.

The faint silver thread connecting Baron and me pulsed beneath my ribs.

The message traveled through instinct.

*Tighten the net, the lower steering trunk has begun failing…

Baron would understand.

He always did.

The mate bond flared.

Briefly.

He was still there.

Still shadowing us beneath complete radio silence.

Still waiting.

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