Dream of Darkness and Dominion (SoulShifter Book 3) by Hilary Thompson

Author:Hilary Thompson [Thompson, Hilary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shifters
Publisher: Star Shadow Books
Published: 2018-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

COREN ROSE STIFFLY from her throne, her fingers kneading deep into the muscles on her spine. She had done something good here - she knew it.

Many men would go home to Weshen, and many Wesh would be free to choose a new home. She had sent Resh with Dain to try and accommodate them somewhere on palace grounds until they could be organized to leave for Weshen City. Somewhere that wasn’t a cell.

Coren hoped she’d drawn a line on how Riatan prisons would work from now on. She also felt she had kept a balance between people who were freed and people who seemed to have done something legitimately illegal.

“I want the process begun to fully document every prisoner in StarsHelm,” she called to one of the Lords who had been called in to help produce reports on the Wesh. He nodded, eyes wide. She guessed it was an enormous task, but it needed to be done. She couldn’t free dangerous criminals, no matter what their race.

But neither would she support a system that kept people in cells because of the color of their skin.

“Your Majesty.”

She turned to the side of the dais, surprised to see Lord Gernant back so soon. “Yes?”

“Majesty, I have information to give you from one of the Brujok captured in the docks attack.”

Coren cocked her head. “Already? Do you trust it?” Resh had never trusted witches.

Gernant lifted a shoulder. “Enough to relay the information to you, Majesty. The witch confessed that Mara is indeed on the run in Sulit. However, she is not near Rurok, nor with the Brujok, but traveling only with Lord Aram, heading south.”

“South!” A shot of adrenaline coursed through Coren. StarSeer had taken Kashar and the twins south. If Mara found them... “What is she planning?”

“We did not get that information. But we do know from both of the captured witches that the Brujok intend to attack their southern sisters again. Their civil war may have been instigated or aided by Mara, but it is far from over.”

Coren considered, wondering how much the witch had told them and if Gernant was holding anything back or interpreting the bits in his favor. “What do you make of this?” she asked Noshaya, who had stepped closer to listen. “Why would the witch confess these things? What does it matter to Riata?”

The woman nodded to her, and she saw a glint of respect in her eyes. “I would guess she was desperate to give information to save her life, Your Grace. She had already watched her sisters die, some by your hand, and some by ours.”

Coren gritted her teeth to stop trembling. They needed this information but not at such cost. She couldn’t condone torture, no matter what was common in Riata. “Does she still live?”

“I am sorry, but she does not,” Gernant said, not sounding sorry at all.

Coren didn’t even look at him. She knew he was the premier alchemist in the palace. Kashar had told her what he knew of the

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