The Village Fell, So the Serpent God Woke and Kept Me novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Cold Ford
"For us," Ellory said.
He walked down the shingle with his throat on fire and stopped ten paces from the headman.
The whole village had gone silent around them.
"You stood in the hall with your hands folded while we sang," he said.
"You waited for the line before the last. And you stopped."
"I had to," Brannoc said.
"You sold two hundred people to the Iron Host."
"I sold nobody!" The headman's voice cracked.
"I made a bargain. They would take the monster, and leave us the Wold, and the road, and the gold."
"The Marshal swore it on his king's name."
"He lied," said the miller.
"I know he lied! I know that now!" Brannoc swung around to face the crowd with his arms out.
"Do you think I wanted this? I read the book. I knew what lay under the Stone."
"I knew we were sitting on a beast, and the beast was sitting on us."
"It was a lullaby," said the young mother with the boy.
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