Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin #1)

Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin #1)

Author: Sable Sorensen Listening Length: 21h 24m
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Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them… Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the King’s elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. She’s made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of the...

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CHAPTER SIX

R eporting to the army recruitment base is the closest I’ve ever been to going inside the castle.

The base is set up right inside the castle’s outer walls, taking up half of a massive courtyard within. I step carefully over icy flagstones, all of them smooth and flat from centuries of feet and hooves and paws.

The permanent army building, which probably houses offices or barracks for officers or something, is a squat, single story wooden structure, flush against the inner courtyard wall. In every direction, huge tents have been erected to create more space to process recruits, each of which sports heavy canvas walls that barely move in the frigid dawn breeze. Each is painted with the royal coat of arms—a snarling direwolf on a shield, a sword crossed with a spear behind it.