BOUGHT BY THE BEAST
But I felt, through the bond, Caspian's small private satisfaction at the shift in the room's energy.
Then Sorcha called her first witness.
It was not someone from the auction house, as I had expected...
Me.
"The witness has the right to decline," the lead arbiter said, looking at me with something that might have been sympathy. "Testimony is not compelled in a validity hearing of this nature."
"I'll testify," I said.
I felt Caspian's hand tighten briefly around mine before he let go.
I walked to the center of the floor. The chamber was utterly silent, the particular silence of several hundred people trying not to breathe too loudly.