Chapter 44 The Price Of Mercy

• Chapter 44 – The Price of Mercy
• The storm outside had passed, but within Lena’s war tent, another raged on.
• Maps lay strewn across the table, bloodstained and burned at the edges. A small flame flickered in a lantern overhead, casting long shadows. Lena stood still, her hands gripping the table’s edge so tightly her knuckles blanched. Around her, the war council waited—silent, cautious. No one dared speak the words they all feared.