After My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Into a Book, the System Made Us Seduce Each Other's Husbands novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Witness Flame
The Empress saw the red moon and did not wait for tomorrow.
By midnight Elora stood in irons on the Blood Moon dais, a platform of black stone at the center of the palace courtyard, with two hundred dragonkin watching from the steps.
An executioner waited at the far end in a leather hood.
Mirelle stood beside her, and their shoulders touched.
Aurek and Dacian stood on the dais too, in plain black, with their hands empty.
"The order is read," said the Empress, from her throne at the foot of the steps. "The princes have signed. Is there a word before the axe?"
"Yes," said Dacian.
His voice rang across the courtyard.
"By the Laws of Witness, I call the temple's witness to the dais."
A shocked hush ran through the crowd.
The Empress's eyes narrowed.
"That law is two thousand years old."
"It has not been repealed, Mother."
"Then she will come."
Linnea climbed the steps in her white robe, with her ears pinned back and her tail tucked tight.
For the first time since Elora had known her, she did not smile.
"The witness may be asked," Dacian said, "by the one she accuses."
He looked at Elora.
Elora stepped forward as far as the chain would let her, and found, to her own surprise, that her voice was perfectly steady.
"Linnea. You say you found my letter."
"The guard found it," said Linnea.
"The slit was sewn with pale gold silk. Majesty, send for the spool the temple keeps, and let the captain hold his thread against it."
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