One Girl, A Pack Of Beasts novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: Stakes

Brannon's head came up at the end of the bench.

For one breath he looked like a man who'd been thrown a rope.

Then he looked at me, and whatever he saw made him look at the floor.

Hester clapped her hands softly.

"She can do my washing after all," she said.

A few of the Ridge wolves laughed.

Nobody else in the Hall did.

I picked my hood up off the floor and shook the sawdust out of it.

I folded it, and tucked it into my belt.

"All right," I said.

The chief blinked. He'd expected me to shout.

"If I lose, I come home and take his mark," I said. "Then hear my terms, since we're all here."

"An exile doesn't set terms."

"Gray Knife does." I turned to the guild master. "Doesn't she? A hunter on the board can name terms against a challenge, in front of the Hall. Or did they plane that off too?"

The guild master looked at the black book still open in front of him.

"Name them," he said.

The chief's jaw worked.

"If I win," I said, "I take the Free Charter. No tribe can ever bond me or give me by order again, and every kill I make is my own."

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