Beast Trials: The Last True Tamer novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Bell Is a Key
"Say that again," I said.
Cassian didn't get the chance.
Boots pounded across the span, and Watch soldiers crouched over us with ropes.
Behind them came a black coat, and then Kieran's voice, tight and loud enough for the whole cliff to hear.
"A rope was cut by an entrant on a roped span. That is a foul under Trial law."
"The Third Trial is void. The girl's family may answer to the magistrates."
"Void?" shouted one of the Thornwick nobles from the ledge below. "On whose word?"
"On the word of the Commander of the Watch."
He looked down at me on the stone, and I looked away.
I felt it anyway.
"Take the entrants back," he said. "Miss Ashdown to the infirmary."
"Not the infirmary," I said, and sat up. "My own bed."
"Your bed isn't safe."
"Neither is yours."
His jaw tightened, and he said nothing more.
That night, after the camp had gone quiet, Cassian came to the stable where I was sleeping on straw with a fox on my chest.
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