The Bride and the Ashen Knight novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Four Hundred
The man in the leather coat did not shout for the guards.
He looked at my torn hand, at my wrecked gown, at Bess with lye on her sleeves, and said, "Sit down before you fall down, Your Highness."
I sat on an upturned bucket by his fire, and four hundred people woke up around me one by one.
They came out of the tents and wagons in the red light, in blankets, with children on their hips.
Nobody threw anything.
The woman with the baby pushed to the front and looked at me hard.
"You said you'd send grain," she said. "Grain came. Forty wagons, on the road behind us."
"And now you're here with blood on you, running from your own palace."
"My brother means to hang my husband at the new moon," I said. "I came to tell you why."
My voice shook, so I stood up on the bucket to be heard.
"Five years ago, Greywold burned."
"You all know that. You were there. You lost your homes."
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