CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Sophia felt as though she were walking to her execution as she made her way down the beach toward the Master of Crows. Sienne stalked beside her, but even that protection didn’t seem like enough right then.
She put a hand over her belly protectively, thinking of what might happen to the child inside her if he chose to cut her down, but it wasn’t just him she was afraid of. The boats out on the fjord still had their cannons turned in toward the shore, and could still fire at any moment.
Shall I make things more comfortable? he sent over to her. The battles in the Dowager’s kingdom have given me power to spare.
He gestured, and the crows around him rose. He opened his coat, and more poured from it, joining with the others, until the space around him was black with them. T
