They Counted Me Like Cargo, So I Took the War novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Counted Out
The whole square waited for Seren to say it.
Hang him.
He could feel the word in a thousand mouths.
He looked at his brother on the step below him, with his hand still out and the seal in it, shaking.
"Not the rope," Seren said.
Aldric's eyes came up to his.
"Give him to the ford," Seren said. "Let Varra keep him, the way he meant Varra to keep me."
The king looked at him for a long moment.
Then he nodded once, and the boy from the Hollin mill took the irons off Corvus on the scaffold.
It rained at the ford.
It always seemed to rain there for them.
Both peoples had come down to the Wend to watch, Caerwen in green on the west bank and Varra in red on the east.
The farmers of the valley stood in between, on the gravel bar in the middle, where the pavilion had been.
The king sat in a litter at the water's edge under an oiled cloak, with the grey lord beside him.
On the far bank, the old Varran lord stood with the gold circlet under his arm, not on his head.
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