MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Forty Seven -- One Moment
They found Edmund at the north gate.
Standing alone in the dark looking at Ironveil like a man saying goodbye to something or hello to it. He could not decide which.
Zane grabbed his arm.
"We said nobody goes alone," he said.
"I needed air," Edmund said.
"You needed" Zane stopped. Breathed. "Edmund."
"I am fine," Edmund said.
"You are standing alone at the north gate at three in the morning with twelve hostile wolves at the east wall."
Edmund looked at the east wall.
Then at Zane.
"I did not know about the twelve," he said.
"Now you do," Zane said. "Come inside."
Rhen handled the twelve.
It was almost anticlimactic.
Six Outer Council guards. Two representatives. One very firm conversation at the east wall that lasted
