Chapter 10: The Reason

The King cleared the room. All of them. Except Caspian, and Thane — who didn't move and wasn't ordered to, which told me something about Thane Ryecroft that I filed away to think about later. "Sit down, Wren." "I'd rather stand." "Sit down anyway." I sat. "You've been on my grounds for over a year," he said. "Your pack reported you missing eleven days ago. Did you know they were looking?" "They called sixty-three times the morning I arrived. Zero times in the year before it." My voice...