Tame the beast
Assawin watched the guards bringing
Graisingh over. Deliberately he’d
ordered the prisoner fed. To build up
his strength. The journey back to
Naganagara would be arduous.
King Nakin would not welcome the
sight of a broken wretch. He’d want
to break the dog. And he’d want to
think he’d broken the cur himself.
Assawin’s task lay elsewhere. With
this truculence. This obstinacy. The
journey back would take time. But
by the time they got there, Assawin
had to have broken the dog’s will. He
wondered how much of that spirit the
dog had leached into the torture stone
these past days.