Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Midwinter Eve
On the eve of the war-fire, the whole clan came up to the great landing.
It lay at the top of the Ash Stair, a flat circle of black stone as wide as a threshing floor.
In its center stood the cold fire-bowl, a stone basin the height of a man, waiting to be lit at dawn.
A thousand torches burned along the stair.
Maelis stood at the king's right shoulder, in the green gown, with her mother's comb in her hair.
Torvald sat in his chair, in black, with his big hands quiet on the arms.
He had not spoken to her about the challenge since the night he held her down on the bed.
He had held her, though. Both nights, until she slept.
Below the stair, in the wet dark, a thousand river soldiers waited behind their own torches.
Odalys stood a step behind Maelis, pale and straight, in a clean shawl.
The old grey elder lifted his staff, and the murmuring stopped.
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