Percival novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: On the Record
The great hall was lit by a thousand candles, and every wolf in the Eastern pack was standing in it.
They filled the floor and the galleries and the stairs, nine hundred of them, shoulder to shoulder in their winter coats.
They all turned when the doors opened.
The noise stopped.
I walked down the middle with the envelope against my chest, and Percival walked one pace behind me, as I had told him to.
On the stone floor in the center stood the lectern, and on the lectern lay the Book.
It is a black leather ledger the size of a paving stone, and it has been the record of this Crown for six hundred years.
I put my hand on the cover.
It was cold.
At the head of the horseshoe, Hugh sat in his plain wooden chair, with his pin at his collar and his eyes on me.
Bascombe stood in the middle of the Council with his cane, in a coat of dark green velvet.
He smiled.
"The human has returned for her sentence," he said.
"How obliging."
"Speaker's motion."
"The adviser's chair, his house and his name are forfeit at the turning of the year."
"The human is put out of Greyholt for good."
"Seconded," said a Councilman.
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