Beast Trials: The Last True Tamer novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Cassian Chooses
The rope didn't tighten, but the guard kept it where I could see.
I stood at the foot of the steps with my fists shaking.
The crowd didn't move.
Most of them looked at the rope and the man on the crate.
Then they looked at me.
Kieran touched my arm.
"We can take him. The Watch will..."
"The Watch will fight forty Thornwick guards in a square full of people," I said. "Bran will hang before you cross the first row."
"Then what do we do?"
"I don't know."
It was the truth, and it was the worst thing I had ever said out loud.
Aldric went up the steps and into the Hall.
The guards pulled Bran down off the crate and marched him in after.
I went to the Pens, because that was where the beasts were.
The guards had already started.
They had the night-stag in a rope net and two men on its antlers, and a smith hammering a grey collar shut around its neck.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Beast Trials: The Last True Tamer are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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