The Summit by K. A. Knight

Author:K. A. Knight [Knight, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

“Enough!” I scream, standing up and smashing my fists on the table to get their attention. Everyone freezes like naughty school children, even as Dray chuckles next to me.

“Enough,” I say again, sweeping my eyes across the room.

“He’s a Berserker!” Reeves shouts while someone else yells, “Traitor!”

I watch as Dray stiffens.

“Enough, he is here as my guest and he will be the reason we can bring down Ivar, so if you would be so fucking kind as to remove the axe from his neck?” I ask, well more like demand. The warriors slink away from him, but everyone is on edge.

“A guest? Girly, what have ya done?” Nan asks, looking at me like I am the crazy one.

“He renounced Ivar, he has paid his price and has saved my life. You might not trust him, fuck, you don’t even have to like him but if anyone, and I mean anyone,” I sweep my eyes again to meet all of theirs, “kills him, then the treaty is broken, and your life is forfeit.” Grumbles sound through the room and I narrow my eyes, bringing my whip down next to me on the table. “Is that understood?” I demand. I hear a few ‘yeses’ and see a few nods. I relax slightly until I hear “Fuck it,” and a scav bursts into action from my left, aiming at Vasilisy who is still glaring at an assassin creeping closer to him. Not thinking, I unravel the whip and launch it through the air until it wraps around the scav’s neck.

Yanking it, he flies onto the table, his face turning pink and panic stretches across his features as he faces down my anger. Leaving him there, I glare at Reeves.

“Does this one speak for you?” I ask in a deadly voice.

He stands, making sure to move slowly. “Champion, he does not.” He glares at the man before looking back to me.

“He broke the treaty, brought arms to my guest,” I yell the last, as the man gasps for breath as I tighten the whip around his throat. “You know the law,” I finish, and when Reeves nods, I release the whip and pull it back to myself, coiling it up around my arm just in case.

Reeves looks at the man sadly as he gasps and slides from the end of the table to the floor, holding his neck as unwilling tears drip from his eyes. “Sirla, what did you do?” he asks the man.

“Re–” The man coughs before carrying on, “Threat, to you. Had… to… protect.” He finishes in a hacking cough.

I can see the understanding and sadness in Reeves’ eyes, even as his face hardens and his hands flex. “You know the laws, no matter the reason.” His voice carries through the room, his decision ringing clear. Not that there was one. If he does not punish his man for breaking the law, then he too is breaking the law, and a direct push from the leader of the meeting. A game, yet another in which we must all play carefully.

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