The Tyrant's Pet novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Accountability
I didn't answer him.
Not right away.
The whole room was waiting for me to, and I let it wait.
Corran knelt in the black puddle with his hands open on his knees.
He wasn't crying.
He looked rooted to the stones, waiting for someone to drag him away.
"Get up," I said.
"Not until you..."
"Get up, Corran. You can ask me standing."
He got up.
His trousers were black to the knee.
"What are you asking for?" I said. "Exactly."
He opened his mouth and shut it again.
"Not to come back," he said finally. "I know you won't. I don't want you to."
"Then what?"
He didn't answer me.
He turned around and looked for the foreman of the miners.
The old man was standing by the wolves' bench, with the moonstone ring still closed in his black-nailed fist.
"A year," Corran said to him. "On the pond. On the mine. Under you."
The foreman squinted at him.
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