Oops, I Tamed the Commander Everyone Dreaded novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Council Floor
It lasted the length of a long breath, and it felt like being dropped down a well full of knives.
When it stopped I was flat on the straw with my mouth full of blanket, and Aldric was beside me, grey as ash.
"Nine years," I whispered. "That was one breath of nine years."
"I felt it," he said. "Lyra, I felt all of it myself."
He sounded astonished.
He also sounded as if he had been run over by a cart.
The witch came up the ladder faster than a woman her age should.
"That was a drop," she said. "The stone will not hold until tomorrow. It must be today, and it must be in front of him."
"Then let's go and ask him to explain himself," I said.
The war council met in the black stone hall at the top of the Marshal's keep, and I walked in through the front doors.
Aldric was on my left, and Orrin was on my right.
The witch came behind with the stone in her apron, and the lean captain walked at the back.
Sabine came last, in the dove-grey gown she had slept in.
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