15. REJECTED

Hours passed with more and more bodies fetched and all in all they made three large piles. The weeps never stopped, going lower only to pick back up. Those that fainted were taken away.

I was curled on the window frame, silently crying and wiping my tears away, sure my skin was painted black with how much I had been crying. I did not want to go down and upset everyone even more, not that the guards at my door would let me. The beta had also turned at that point to his person form and it was good to see him but I hoped it was under better circumstances.

When all the bodies were retrieved the king said a speech to the people as they wept even harder. He just made it all official that those people were really dead and that there was nothing they could do than send them away. To my utter horror, oil was poured on the bodies and they lit the fire tree bark to throw it on the bodies with them set alight.

I had never seen anyth