MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Thirty Three — The Elder's Trial
The trial was set for three days after their return to Ironveil.
Three days of preparation. Three days of the Outer Council setting up the formal proceedings in the Gathering Hall. Three days of Ironveil holding its breath.
Mara spent those three days doing three things.
Working with the transition council framework during the day.
Learning her mother from Edmund in the evenings.
And at night sitting between Caius and Zane in whatever room they ended up in and letting the bond be exactly what it was without apologizing for it.
It was the nights that kept her steady.
The first evening Edmund found her at the window again.
The mountain light doing the thing.
He came and stood beside her and did not say anything for a
