The Healer Bride: Awakening the Ruined Dragon King novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Healer Bride
They crowned him in the white hall at Thornhall, on the gold Stone, with the doors thrown open so the square could see.
The whole city had come.
They stood packed along the steps and up the street, and in the windows of every house that looked down on the palace.
Sorrel waited at the foot of the dais in a gown of deep green, with her mother on one side and the captain on the other.
The chancellor carried the crown.
It was an old thing, plain gold, a circle of dragon claws, and it had sat in a locked case for six years.
Ronan knelt on the Stone, and the hall went quiet.
"Ronan Aldermere," the chancellor said. "Do you take the crown of Caerlund, and the fire of your fathers, and the duty of the realm?"
"I do."
The crown settled on his black hair.
The Stone beneath his knees brightened until the whole hall was warm with it, and the crowd in the square broke into a roar that shook the banners.
He rose.
Nobody called him ruined.
The chancellor turned to Sorrel with a smaller circlet on a cushion, a thin gold band set with one green stone.
"My lady. The queen's crown, by the king's wish."
"Thank you," Sorrel said. "May I say something first?"
The chancellor blinked.
"Of course."
She walked up the white steps and stood beside Ronan on the Stone, facing the crowd.
She had not planned the words.
"I was given away in a hall like this one," she said, and her voice carried farther than she expected. "A man read a scroll, and everyone looked at their plates."
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