The Wolf I Saved Was the Mad Duke novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Midwinter Court
"Ianthe?" said Papa.
Everyone at the table was looking at her.
"He isn't lying," Ianthe said. "I was there."
Papa's spectacles came off.
The Dowager put down her toast.
Cassiel didn't look surprised at all.
He reached across the tablecloth and turned the High Temple's paper face down.
"Then we say so," he said. "Out loud. In front of all of them."
The throne room was so full on Midwinter morning that people stood on the window ledges.
The Emperor sat on the high throne under a canopy of gold.
He was sixty-eight and ill, wrapped in furs to the chin, with a face like old candle wax.
But his eyes were open, and they were sharp.
The Crown Prince lounged on a lower chair beside him, eating sugared almonds.
The High Priest stood before the steps in white, with a book.
And Ianthe stood alone in the middle of the floor in plain grey, with her mother's pearls outside her collar.
They had put a chair out for her.
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