The guard hit Kestrel across the face. “I said, what....

“ The guard hit Kestrel across the face. “I said, what did you give him?”You had a warrior’s heart, even then.Kestrel spat blood. “Nothing,” she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. “I gave him nothing. ”

Marie Rutkoski

From : The Winner's Crime