Amid their defeated silence, the queen looks at AmaSibere’s desiccated corpse, then rakes the amphitheater with her eyes. “Let no one here forget the twenty-seven souls who perished due to Sibere treachery. VaSibere chose to destroy his fellow tribesman in order to increase his influence; it is only fitting that he now suffer the very fate he sought to bring down on his neighbor.” She regards the Siningwe chief. “Are you appeased, Great Leopard?” He has just been made the wealthiest and most powerful chief in the Plains, but the rage in his eyes has not dimmed. He levels a finger at the former
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