EoS Chapter 20
Chapter Twenty: Blood in the Briar edit
Eliles awakens with a scroll sewn into her robes, attending prayers before burning it in the kitchen hearth, shaken by Istinjoln’s silence on the Crack of Burdenis crisis. A maid announces a priest thrown to the thorns, and Eliles, suspecting Rovol’s fate for copying the scroll, joins Sandele and others on the wall. The bloody, tongue-less body in the vines confirms her fears, and guilt battles her resolve to feign innocence. Jumel speculates callously on Rovol’s crimes, while Eliles masks her emotions, fleeing to Dareun’s chambers. There, Woxlin reacts to the news, leaving to investigate, and Dareun comforts Eliles, linking her tears to a childhood memory of a similar punishment. She hides her role in Rovol’s death, clinging to survival as she nears her escape, haunted by the lesson of his demise.
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