The Saintess and the Demon King novel · Chapter 10 of 24
Chapter 10: The High Priest
Veyron let him in.
Isabeau had expected a fight over it, but the king only nodded once, and the gate opened.
Maximin Ellistrand walked into the great hall at the center of twelve acolytes in white, with his gold-threaded hem trailing over the black stone.
Every demon in the room watched him cross it.
Torvin stood at the pillar with one hand on his axe.
Soldiers lined the walls, silent and enormous, with their horns brushing the rafters.
Maximin looked at none of them.
He looked only at Isabeau, where she stood at Veyron's right hand on the dais.
"My child," he said. "Look at what they've done to you."
She had known that voice since she was nine years old.
It had comforted her when she cried for her parents, and sung her the Flame's litany at night, and it had never once been raised.
"Nothing's been done to me, Your Holiness," she said.
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