Transmigrated to Raise Panther Cubs novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: A Name
"Say it," Tuck whispered again. "Please. I'm so tired of waiting."
Thad pressed his cheek to the small head.
"Not here, Tuck. At the Stone. In front of everyone."
The cub nodded against his collar.
"Then let's go."
They walked the mile through the dawn with the whole Hold behind them.
Nobody had told them to come.
The torches burned down in the grey light as they went.
Someone passed round a loaf of Thad's bread, and it went hand to hand until it was gone.
The Gathering Stone stood black in the clearing, with frost on its top.
Forty people spread themselves around it, and then fifty, and then more than Thad could count.
Marren Lowry stepped to the front and stood with her spear grounded.
"The Hold is gathered," she said. "A naming is asked. Who asks it?"
Thad looked at Wystan.
Wystan looked back, and there was something raw and uncertain in the gold eyes.
It was the look of a man about to take a step he had been afraid of for two winters.
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