Nine Hot Therians and Their Only One Queen novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Nine Cords Burn
Bracken laughed, and the sound was thin in the silent Hall.
"A ferry girl in a dusty chair," he said. "You are not a court, Majesty. You are a frightened woman."
"The judge's seat has one power the throne does not," said Espen, from the floor.
He was on his knees with his bleeding wrist clamped in his hand, and his voice came out in pieces.
"Article Two. The judge may call the Stone to witness any oath sworn under its roof."
"Then I call it," said Linnea.
She came down from the chair and crossed the marble to the grey Stone.
Her palm was still cut from last night, and she opened it again against the rock.
The gold sun on her hand flared, and the Stone turned warm as bread.
"You told me the bond was false," she said to it, in front of everyone. "You were right."
"Now judge the thing that made it false."
Light ran down the Stone from top to bottom.
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