Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie novel · Chapter 32 of 40
Chapter 32: The Silence He Keeps
Sera lifted one hand before Eln could speak, and the two guards stopped where they stood. The scribe's lamp threw Kael's shadow across the open page, but he did not sit. He did not look at Lirien, who had gone still at the bench with her round glasses catching the light.
'Alpha,' Eln said. 'You were summoned as a witness. You are not seated.'
'I am aware,' Kael said.
Lirien found her voice first, soft and reasonable, the way she said everything. 'Eln. Before we go further, the panel should deal with the page. The respondent has entered a document whose reverse side she produced herself, in a room where a dying elder was speaking, with no custodian and no chain. It is contaminated. I move that the panel seal it as corrupted and strike it from the record.'
She pushed her glasses up her nose.
Sera said nothing. She watched the gallery instead. Two rows back a man in a grey coat had stopped writing. Beside him a woman had her hand flat on the bench, fingers spread, the way a person braces before a wave.
Eln turned the page over herself. She read the line. She read it again.
'It is signed,' Eln said. 'The signer is present. The signer has been given the chance to deny it and has not denied it.'
'I deny it,' Vessa said.
The room did not move.
'You deny your own hand,' Eln said.
'I deny what it is being made to mean.' Vessa's voice had thickened. She had not sat down since she entered. The cord at her waist swung when she turned, and the grey wax lump knocked against her skirt. Each time the scribe said the words founding records, Vessa's eyes went to it and came back.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–20 of Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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