My Vampire System novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Hearing
"Wait," I said.
The guards stopped.
I did not look at Venn.
I looked at the empty air in front of me, where the gold window had been waiting since the day I walked in.
"Display," I said. "To the room."
The window opened.
It was the size of a door, and this time everyone could see it.
A collective gasp ran across the hall.
Letters of burning gold hung over the stone floor in a bright square, higher than the dais.
LEDGER OF BONDS.
HEIR: INGRID SOLHEIM.
BOUND SIRE: SEBASTIAN ROOK.
BOND: SEALED.
The eight Councilors rose out of their chairs.
"That is not possible," said an old woman in black, her voice cracked. "The Ledger has never shown itself to this room in my lifetime."
"It was waiting," I said. "For someone who wouldn't sell it."
Venn did not move.
His smile had gone still.
"A parlor trick," he said.
"Ledger," I said. "Print the register of the Councilor's drained wards."
For a moment nothing happened.
Then the gold window flickered, shook, and began to scroll.
Names.
First and last, in a clean white script, one beneath the other.
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