Of Wolves and Dragons by Cara Wylde

Author:Cara Wylde [Wylde, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-05T05:00:00+00:00

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After a quick lunch and a huge glass of fresh lemonade, Avelyn felt like a whole new person. She knew she would soon be called to the witness stand, and she thanked the heavens it would happen after the break. With Max and Jocelyn’s help, she went over what she had to say one last time. There were only two things she wasn’t comfortable with, because they weren’t exactly true: one, that she found Sabine in the dungeon when she went exploring out of boredom and curiosity, not because she was trying to find a way to run away, and two, that she was one hundred percent human, as she had always been. Well, they were both half true. She couldn’t possibly tell the Council she had once intended to run away from her responsibilities as a shifter-bride, since it was against the peace treaty. It was odd how she was just realizing this. After all, none of them was completely innocent.

When Councilor Willamar’s booming voice called her name, Avelyn’s heart jumped in her chest. She stood up and forced herself to walk to the stand. She suddenly felt out of place… Everyone’s eyes on her, the members of the Council and the jury waiting to hear what she had to say… The pressure was too much, and she felt like she didn’t know what to do with herself anymore, how to move, what to do with her hands… “Move naturally, just move naturally,” she kept repeating to herself. “The stand is right there, two more steps, move naturally.” She felt like an impostor. Yes, that was it. Now that she had identified the problem, she didn’t feel any better. She was going to lie. Not about everything, just about two small details. Except… they weren’t that small. In her mind, they had grown to impressive proportions. They were weighting on her soul, making her shoulders slump slightly and tiny cramps stab at her stomach. She sat down behind the witness stand and took a deep breath, forcing herself to keep her back straight.

“Mrs. Blackmane,” began Zachary Willamar, “can you tell us how you first met Sabine Miller, your husband’s ex-wife?”

“Here we go…” thought Avelyn. Then she began to talk. She had no way of knowing it, but her voice was steady and her words were well-measured. The story made sense, there was not a single glitch in it, and the people in the council, the jury, and the audience listened to her as if they were entranced. Again, she didn’t know it, but the way she looked and held herself helped a lot. Her red hair was tied up in a loose, yet stylish bun, a couple of stray curls falling out of it to frame her heart-shaped face. Her sea-blue eyes moved from one councilor to another, the tiny wrinkle on her forehead when she furrowed her brows in concentration showing how serious she was, and how eager to answer their questions as clearly as possible. The elegant

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