The Price of Defiance

“Darius Zane Blackwood, you have been found guilty of the crime against the treaty, do you have to say in your defense?” the tall woman in black velvet cloak asked. Her pale skin, white hair, and icy blue eyes strangely luminous in the dark dungeon.

Dare twisted in pain as one of the crossbow bolts tore some muscles and nerves on his back when it twisted inside the flesh. But the pain was nothing