Aldona didn’t know what they were going to do, nor did she know how they were going to lead the Lion away from the market. The Lion of Pride would go to the place where people where most prideful; and that seemed to be the marketplace.
Merchants, Aldona reminded herself.
Children were screamed and she looked at the dead that had been torn apart by the lion’s claws or by it stepping on them. Without thinking, Aldona moved a woman and her newborn baby out of the lion’s way.
Children were screaming in terror, Montgomery had two in his arms and another one sitting on his shoulders. Aldona couldn’t help but think, was this how it was on the night of her birth? Was there this much fear? This much death? And how had Nestanha avoided it with the snake and why weren’t they grateful that they
