#Chapter 96: I Am Capable

Bethany keeps her head down, completing her work scrubbing the blood from the balcony while trying to not to panic about the very clearly bear soldiers still in the capital, posing as King’s guards. All the while, she waits for her chance to come forward and warn the Gamma about what she’s seeing. After finishing cleaning, I head back into the Hall from the balcony. Gamma George is there, speaking with a few guards, some I recognize, but most are barely disguised bear-clan soldiers. “What do you mean you can’t find the body?” George snaps. Bethany, wanting to eavesdrop, immediately begins cleaning nearby. No one seems to pay her any mind. Not George, not the bear-clan soldiers, and not even the guards she knows. As a slave, she’s basically invisible in the room. At least to them. Bethany locks eyes with another slave, who gives her a silent, worried look. The head guard George is talking to, stands at attention, his face carefully passive. “We’ve searched the entirety of th