After My Husband Abandoned Me, I Rule All Dragons novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Test
I didn't sleep.
I lay by the hatch all night and hummed under my breath, so low that Dorrit beside me could barely hear it.
Every time I looked, his head was up.
At first light the grooms brought us jerkins and caps that smelled of horse.
"Keep your braid inside your collar," the under-groom told me. "Nobody looks at a groom. Nobody's ever looked at a groom."
By the middle of the morning, the Eyrie yard was full.
The court came out onto the hall steps in furs.
Half the city crowded in through the gate behind the guards to watch.
I stood near the front of the crowd in my groom's cap with a bucket in my hand.
Dorrit stood at my left.
The cook, the smith's wife and the shepherds were spread through the crowd behind us, one here, one there.
Bettris was in the loft at the hatch with her bow, under orders not to use it.
The King came out and sat down in a chair on the steps.
He looked older than he had at the equinox, and more frightened.
The Chancellor stood at his right hand.
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