Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Osric Kneels
The river soldiers climbed in ranks, with their spears leveled at the landing.
Maelis walked to the edge of the stair and stood where the first step began.
The gold had not left her.
It spilled down the black steps ahead of her, and the climbing men slowed.
Behind her, the black dragon settled his bulk on the lip of the stone and watched them with half-closed eyes.
At the forty-seventh step, the soldiers stopped.
Osric came up through their ranks with his white horse trailing behind him and his rings flashing in the firelight.
His blue coat was torn at the shoulder, and he had not slept.
"You see?" he called, to his lords, to the marshal, to anyone. "She is not natural.
"A witch holds the king of Emberhold in a spell, and she has his dragons.
"Take the landing, for Corrin.
"Take it, and take her."
Nobody lifted a spear.
The marshal on the grey horse leaned down toward the nearest captain, and spoke a quiet word.
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