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Chapter 11 : The Cleansing of the Court
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The square before the castle had never been so full.People packed the stone avenues and the wide court - elders in faded cloaks, warriors in uniform, young ones climbing columns and balconies to see. Banners of Ashvale flapped in the wind - gray and silver, black and crimson, all bearing the crescent moon Lyra had fought beneath.And at the heart of it all, the newly repaired tribunal dais loomed above the crowd.A platform for justice. Or vengeance.Guards flanked the sides, weapons gleaming. Ekreth stood to one side of the platform like a carved shadow, unreadable, untouchable. Elira waited on the other, her hair pulled back, eyes scanning the masses like a hawk.Atop the dais, shackled and stripped of their robes of office, knelt the condemned.The traitorous councilors.Some wept. Some glared. One tried to whisper a spell and was instantly silenced by the mark Elira had carved into his tongue.The people roared as Lyra stepped forward, crowned not in metal, but in light. Her divi
Lyra, His Second Chance Mate Chapter 11 : The Cleansing of the Court
Lyra POV The kneeling silence held like a drawn breath. Then Lyra lifted her chin, eyes burning silver and gold, her voice clear and sharp as steel:“Stand.”Nyxar rose first, silent and steady. The others followed - Elira with grace, Ekreth with grim resolve, and Thalen like a ghost finally remembering her name.But the council? The survivors remained where they were. Slumped. Broken. Eyes lowered, magic spent.Cowards.Veyla hissed as she tried to stand, but her limbs trembled. Her shoulder wound glowed faintly with residual backlash.“Let them rise,” Nyxar murmured at Lyra’s side, his voice low. “Let them show the world they kneel or flee.”“No,” Lyra said, gaze sweeping across them. “They don’t rise yet. Not until the truth does.”She stepped forward, each stride ringing against the stone floor like a drumbeat.“You cast spells bound by oath and blood. You tried to end a ruler without trial. That is high treason under the very laws you swore to uphold.”A younger councilor began
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Lyra’s POVThe room still smelled like him. Faintly, but still.Even after all this time - after the linens had been changed, the floors scrubbed, the windows opened to every wind - the scent of Kane lingered. That particular depth that was only his.Lyra sat on the edge of the bed, fingers wrapped around a folded note sealed with the crescent of the Council. Her thumb traced the wax, hesitating.They wanted to speak. A few of them. “Privately,” the note said. About “unsettling developments within the kingdom.”She’d seen worse attempts at diplomacy.A quiet knock echoed at the doorframe. She didn’t look up. “Come in, Ekreth.”The dragon stepped inside, his coat dripping from the rain outside. He didn’t speak at first - just stood there, watching her with eyes that had seen too much.“You’re going to meet them,” he said finally.“They asked,” she replied. “About disturbances in the northern border.”“You think that’s really what this is about?”She said nothing.Ekreth walked farther
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