Chapter 140

**Artie

By morning, I’d built up my resolve to get to the bottom of the situation and devise Lyra’s punishment from there. I knew the council would want me to deal with Lyra harshly—probably to the point of beheading her as had been the plan when I thought she was her sister—but I already knew I was against that course of action.

I had to find something redeeming in her. In her actions. She was my