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The circle of stone faces fell one by one, a never-ending wave of movement. Wilt into Higgs. Higgs into Petron. Petron into Daemi. Daemi into Lodan. Lodan into—
—Wake up.—
Wilt opened his eyes and immediately closed them again, squeezing them shut against the bright light that burned through them. He blinked tears away, twisting his face from the source of the light, but even the stone floor was too intense a white to focus on.
‘My king, as you have commanded, we present the accused to the court.’
A hand on Wilt’s shoulder spun him around and a mailed fist held his chin up to the sun. He screwed his eyes closed as tightly as he could, tears now flowing freely down his cheeks. The sound of a crowd gasping and exclaiming in surprise rose from somewhere below him, and a breeze blew ac
