The Drunk Wolf novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Guard Trial
"Then tell me," I said. "Now. Up here, where it happened."
My uncle looked out over the loch.
"He'd been drinking since dawn," he said. "From that flask in your coat. He was drinking a great deal, that last year. You were at university. You didn't see it."
"That's a lie."
"He rode too close to the edge. I came up beside him to take his rein." He spread his gloved hands. "I was too late. Those marks on the rock are mine, Sorcha. I tried to save him."
Struan had gone very still beside me.
"You'll say that to the Court," I said.
"Every word. And they'll believe me, because it's sad and it's ordinary." He mounted his black hunter in one easy movement. "Drunks fall off things. Ask your consort."
He rode away down the hill at a walk.
He didn't look back.
I stood at the dyke with my father's flask buttoned against my ribs and shook.
"He was ready," I said. "He was waiting for us. He's had four years to get that story ready."
"Then he's been afraid of that rock for four years," Struan said. "Good."
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