The Princess of Ash novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Spymaster's End
"I am a lord of Carrow, Sovereign," said Perrin Hask, in the middle of the Ember hall.
"Only Carrow may judge me."
He said it mildly, with a captain's fist in his collar.
Auren looked at him for a long moment.
"Then Carrow shall," he said.
They tried him in Harrowgate, under the burned roof of the throne hall, with the sky looking down through the rafters.
Nobody had mended the beams.
The great doors stood open, and the city had come in to the walls, as much of it as the hall would hold.
Carrow's lords sat on the benches along the north side, every one of them in mourning grey.
The envoys of the Flame Council sat opposite in crimson, with the Ember Speaker in chains at the end of their row.
On the dais there was no throne.
There were three plain chairs, and in the middle one sat my mother.
She wore a blue gown the ladies of the court had sewn through the night, and her palm was bound in clean linen.
The grey in her hair shone in the light from the broken roof.
I stood at her right hand with my brother pressed against my skirt.
At the foot of the dais Lord Hask knelt on the stones in his torn black wool.
Two guards held him.
Beside him, in iron, knelt my father.
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