Chapter 46 By The Goddess's Witness
- [KNOX]
- The moment the rite ends, I leave.
- I don’t wait for applause or approval, or whatever it is my father expects people to offer after that spectacle. I walk straight back to my chambers, blood drying on my skin, iron thick in the back of my throat, the image of the stag’s wide, startled eyes still lodged behind my own.