Chapter 136: Nyra’s POV

Silence followed Roe’s remark. None of them dared to speak.

Nine elders sat before me now, none of them sneering or smirking.

Just old, afraid men and women whose shoulders were hunched, their eyes darting around and their hands folded too tightly in their laps.

The broken one had been dragged out moments earlier, leaving behind a faint smear on the stone floor and a lesson no one here would forget. He whimpered too loudly.

Good.

I leaned forward slightly on ...