Beast Trials: The Last True Tamer novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: What Eira Left
"Anwen," my mother said. "If you can hear this, you are grown."
Her voice was dry and quiet, and it was the voice I'd been listening for my whole life.
I couldn't breathe.
I couldn't move.
She lifted one thin hand, and there was an iron ring around her wrist with a short chain.
"They've put this in my food and on my skin," she said. "Eleven days."
"I'm not going to live to see you again, so I've asked the old stone under us to keep what I can't."
"It's listening. It will show you what it saw."
The cellar around her flickered.
Then it was not a memory of her face but the whole night, and I stood in it.
Lord Aldric stood by the door, younger and silver-haired already, with his hands folded.
A boy in a recruit's coat came in behind him with a lamp.
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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