Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie novel · Chapter 36 of 40
Chapter 36: The Answer She Routes
She let the amber come up first, before she answered him.
Kael's hand was open on the shelf beside her, palm up, and he did not lower it when she looked at it. The shimmer rose off him in a low gold band around his head, the way it always did when he was deciding something. Under his spoken offer ran the second track, quieter, flat, the one he kept for himself.
'Give me the pages,' he said. 'I'll take them to Lirien before the sitting and end this tonight.'
Under it: I can stand between her and the door. That is all I know how to do.
Sera pulled the ambient noise down. The lamp hum, the guards shifting outside, the scratch of the scribe's pen all dropped away, and the grove went silent around his one sentence, floating in full color where she could hold it. He meant it. That was the trouble with him. He would stand in front of her and let the whole pack aim at his back, and he would call it protection, and he would be wrong.
She let the sound come back.
'You want to carry them to her door,' she said. 'And stand there while she explains herself to you.'
'She'll explain herself to the panel tomorrow either way.'
'Then she can do it with the pages already in the record, where she can't touch them.' Sera lifted the folded pages off the table and held them out to him. 'You'll walk them down to Eln. Not to Lirien. To Eln.'
He looked at the pages in her hand for a moment. His thumb moved along his jaw and stopped.
'You're testing me,' he said.
She did not answer. She kept the pages where they were, arm out, steady, and let the silence do the work. He took them.
He did not ask her why. He did not tell her she was wrong to. He turned for the corridor with the file under his arm, and she walked beside him past the broken seal and into the lamplight of the side chamber, where the guards had set two chairs and a table and left the door open on purpose.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–20 of Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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