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Chapter 13: The Trial

Linnea folded the black-sealed scroll once and handed it back to Sabeth Bracken.

"They walk in beside me," she said. "Not in front of your guards."

Sabeth's smile slipped, just a little.

"As you like, Majesty."

At noon, Ember Hall held more people than it had on the day of the crowning.

Lords packed the galleries, and the twelve lords of the Council sat on a long bench under them.

At the foot of the dais stood a plain stone chair that nobody had used in forty years.

It was the judge's seat, and Linnea did not look at it.

She walked down the center of the floor with her nine men in a line beside her.

Kaelen was at her left shoulder and Odell at the end.

Wren stood by the wall with her hands knotted in her apron.

Bracken waited in front of the Stone, thin and black-robed, with his chain of office shining.

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