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The Ninth Tithe, Book 3
The Chancellor's Trial
The Concord is spoken, never written. And this autumn, Katrina Hart must defend every word of it in the Chancellor's own house.
The Concord is spoken, never written. And this autumn, Katrina Hart must defend every word of it in the Chancellor's own house.
The Herald's counter-demand was an invitation written as a sentence: Ashcombe may come to Vessaly, and listen at the door. So Ashcombe comes. Katrina brings her grandmother, the Charter-Voice the Chancellor is keeping as a guest who does not leave, her sister Lark, summoned as a witness for reasons nobody will state, and a summer's worth of speakings the office would rather examine quietly: a Choosing spoken in the wrong form, a protection answered over a Concord village, a life-debt no one has ever been allowed to price.
The Trial of Readings will test every speaking she carries, in a room built so a voice cannot lie in it. What it is really testing is her. And the woman who built the trap has had two hundred years to practice being courteous.
Book Three of THE NINTH TITHE. The Trial. The account the Chancellor has never given aloud. And a debt about to change hands.