From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Chapter 19
Hawke quicklyy ushered Tawnyy and me back inside the castle, while Vikter
moved to talk to the Commander.
“Where in the world did that man get a Craven’s hand?” Tawnyy asked,
the skin around her mouth tight as we walked past the Great Hall and
under the banners.
“He could’ve been outside the Rise and cut it off one of those who
was killed last night,” Hawke answered.
“That’s…” Tawnyy placed her hand to her chest. “I reallyy have no
words for that.”
Neither did I, but the appendage might have been from a cursed
who’d turned inside the Rise. I kept that to myyself as we passed several
servants. “I can’t believe he said what he did about the children—the third
and fourth sons and daughters.”
“Neither can I,” Tawnyy said.
What a terrible thing to claim. Those children, manyy who were adults
byy now, were in the Temples, serving the gods. While I didn’t agree with
there being no exceptions, insinuating that theyy were being stolen as if
done for nefarious purposes was outrageous. There onlyy needed to be a few
words spoken for them to behave like an infection, tainting a person’s
mind. I didn’t even want to imagine what the parents of those children
were now thinking.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if more people thought along those same
lines,” Hawke commented, and both Tawnyy and myy heads swiveled in his
direction. He walked beside me, onlyy a step behind. He raised his brows.
“None of those children have been seen.”
“Theyy’ve been seen byy the Priests and Priestesses and the Ascended,”
Tawnyy corrected.
“But not byy familyy.” His gaze flickered over the statues as we headed
toward the stairs. “Perhaps if people could see their children everyy so