Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Wolf She Silenced: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

Nadia came down the steps with the jar in her hand and the whole yard turned to her."Clear the yard," she said. "The counter-ritual is not a thing for forty wolves and a Council lord. It is a thing for the Luna and the warden and the wolves who love her."Fearchar did not move."I am not leaving this yard," he said."Then you will stand at the wall and you will watch and you will not speak." Nadia did not look at him. "And when it is done, you will stand in front of the Council and answer for a hundred years of false bonds."The pack cleared the middle of the yard. The fires were built up. The cairn stone was brought from the north ridge and set in the centre of the yard, and Nadia put the jar on it.Then she turned to me."Luna," she said. "You are a wolf now and a wolf is a harder thing to teach than a woman. The counter-ritual is not spoken in human words. It is spoken in the old tongue, and the old tongue is a thing the wolf knows better than the woman does. So I am going to ask

Nadia spoke the first words of the counter-ritual, and my wolf spoke them with her.Say it after me, she said. Do not think about the words. Do not try to understand them. The old tongue is not a thing you understand with your head. It is a thing you understand with your bones.I said the words.They came out of my throat in a voice that was not my voice, low and rough and old, and they did not feel like words in my mouth. They felt like a smell and a taste and a shape in the air, and the cairn in front of me began to warm.Good, my wolf said. Again.Nadia spoke the second line and I spoke it after her, and the cairn warmed further and the jar on the stone began to smoke."Again," Nadia said. "The third line is the one that opens the bond."She spoke the third line. It was longer than the others and it turned in the middle, and when she finished it she looked at me.I opened my mouth and the words came out and the cairn caught fire.It was not a fire that burned. It was a fire that op

The envoy of Çamlıca at the gate was Selin.She stood in the yard with her copper hair loose and a sealed letter in her hand and four warriors behind her, and she did not look like a wolf who had come to negotiate."The Alpha of Çamlıca is coming," she said. "He will be here in three days with a hundred wolves. He has heard what happened on this mountain and he has heard that a Luna has spoken the counter-ritual and broken the marks of a Council lord. He wants to see it for himself.""See what?""See the Luna who broke the marks." Selin looked at me. "And see whether the pack that stood against Fearchar is a pack he can ally with."I took the letter and read it by the fire. The Alpha of Çamlıca wrote in a careful hand and said that he had been waiting a hundred years for a wolf who could break a false bond and that he was coming to Kırkkaya to meet her. He said he was bringing a hundred wolves and grain and a proposal."A hundred wolves," Cemal said behind me."A hundred wolves and gr

I found out at midday, when Deniz came to my quarters with a patrol report in her hand and her face red."Luna," she said. "The northern wall. Barış has put six warriors on it and he has moved the two who were there to the eastern line.""Barış is not on the northern wall.""He is on the northern wall now. He has been there since dawn." Deniz held out the report. "And this is the patrol report from last night. It is signed by Barış and it is not the report you asked for. It does not mention the hunters in the cove and it does not mention the Alpha of Çamlıca at the eastern gate."I took the report and read it. It was short and it was clean and it said the northern line was quiet and the eastern line was quiet and there was nothing to report."Where did you get this?""It was on the table in the long room. I was bringing the elders their tea and it was there with the others." Deniz looked at me. "Luna. There are three reports from the last three nights and they are all signed by Barış

I went to the western gate with the whole pack behind me.Selin was standing on the low path with twelve Çamlıca warriors and a sealed letter, and she was not smiling. Her copper hair was tied back and her dark green eyes were flat and her boots were dry in a way that had stopped being strange to me."Luna," she said. "I have been sent by the Alpha of Çamlıca on the coast. He has heard that a wolf calling himself his brother is in your guest wing. He says his brother has been dead for twenty years and he says that a wolf who claims to be him is a liar and an impostor." She held out the letter. "He says the alliance is off unless you hand the impostor over by nightfall and accept the original terms."I took the letter and broke the seal.It was short. It said the same thing Selin had said. It said the Alpha of Çamlıca on the coast had heard that a wolf was claiming to be his dead brother and that he would not sign an alliance with a pack that harbored impostors. It said that if the imp