Crown of Hidden Scales novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Lie Chamber
The lattice rose a hand's breadth, ground, and stopped.
Rhain went down on his hands and knees and crawled under it.
I watched him do it from twenty-nine paces away, down a stone passage with a dagger against my wrist.
When he stood on my side of the bars, his hands were bare and open.
He had brought nothing.
"The gloves are off already," said Hesper. "How obliging."
"Walk ahead of me, Aldric. Slowly."
She marched us through the side door and into the great hall with the knife never leaving my arm.
The court was waiting there in rows, five hundred strong.
She had sent for them before she ever seized me.
Edric sat on the black throne with no crown at all and a red ring on his brow.
Obern Gaunt stood behind it without his chain, looking at nothing.
"My lords," said Hesper, in the voice made for cathedrals.
"A creature has put on the Wyrm Crown, and some of you have knelt to her."
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