Chapter 23 Mara

"Let him go."

I don't recognise the voice at first. It's mine, high and cracked, bouncing off the black walls of the chapel, and Soren doesn't move.

"Soren, let him go. If you kill him here, Caravel comes over the river, and Evelina's dad burns Duskryn to the ground, and everyone in Ashby dies,...