They Counted Me Like Cargo, So I Took the War novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Highcourt
"As my husband," Seren said. "Unarmed. In my father's hall."
"Yes."
"They'll think you've come to surrender."
"Then they'll be surprised."
Corvus picked up his father's knife off the chest and held it out to Seren hilt first, the way he had at the ford.
"You keep this," he said. "You're the one who's allowed to be clever."
They came into Highcourt on foot, through the main gate, at noon on market day.
Seren had chosen the hour.
The square under the palace was full, stalls and carts and a thousand people buying onions.
The day Aldric burned his letters, Seren had watched this square from a window.
Today he walked up the middle of it in Varran black with the general of Varra beside him, and Corvus had no sword.
People stopped buying onions.
A woman with a basket said Seren's name.
Then somebody else said Corvus's, and it went across the square faster than they did.
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