He Pushed Me Into the Void, So This Time I Said No novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Edge, Again
The sentence came down in gold letters, one clause at a time.
[First. All forty bonds of the Novice Zone cluster are void. The rings are removed.]
Forty silver bands cracked at once and fell to the stone.
The girl who could not have been twenty looked at her bare wrist and put her hand over her mouth.
The big man picked up his ring, turned it over, and dropped it.
Dee let out a sound I had never heard from her, half a whoop and half a sob.
[Second. All assets taken by the proposer from the bonded are returned in full.]
A rain of gold light fell across the floor, logs and blankets and food stacked in neat piles at forty pairs of feet.
My own panel chimed.
[Twelve hundred logs returned to LaceyOrmond, with interest.]
I let out a short laugh.
It was my money for TinyTurnip and for the quiet one.
I would never have asked for it back.
I was glad to have it.
[Third. KelseyRudd.]
Kelsey was standing alone, small in the red coat.
The bench spoke slowly.
[Kelsey Rudd acted as proposer on the instruction of another and has confessed freely to the Tribunal. Her bond is void. She will keep her life. She will return to a patch of her own, with nothing in her inventory, and begin again.]
"Nothing?" she whispered.
[The coat she wears belongs to LaceyOrmond by trade record. It is returned.]
Her fingers went to the collar.
She stood there a moment.
Then she took the red coat off, folded it with her cracked pink nails, and walked across the hall to me.
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