My Panther Mate & Our Little Cub novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Mother Seat
"The mother-seat," the white-browed elder said.
He stood on my doorstep with the cold morning behind him and his hands folded on his staff.
"It is the twelfth seat on the council.
It has been empty since before I was grey.
The mother of a living cub, chosen by the clan, who speaks for every child in the Ashmark."
Behind him the four other elders nodded, stiff and solemn.
Hesper was beaming so hard she looked ready to burst.
Darek had come to stand at my shoulder, and Tuck was hanging on my skirt.
"The clan voted at dawn," the elder said.
"We would be honored."
I looked at the faces on my step.
I thought about Ila, whom nobody had asked anything for three years.
"No," I said.
The elder blinked.
"No one has ever refused it."
"Then I'm sorry to be the first."
I held up my hands.
"It's a good seat.
But it's a chair, and I'd rather be where people cough.
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