“My lord,” he called out. He fell to the king’s feet. “Get up,” the king commanded. The boy stood up and was in tears. Someone has run and told him his father’s fate.
“Your father has done what is called a capital sin. And for that reason, he will receive capital punishment. But I will give him one string of hope. First, do you have affection for your father?”
“Yes,” he nodded in agony.
“Go to him and ask him to name his associates, the one who sent him to kill me, and I will show mercy to him. The people who promised him huge riches after my death. Tell him to un-shell his mind and I will set him free, but he will not stay in this castle again.”
The boy bowed his head and went back to his father, this time, the soldiers stood and watched him. When the boy walked closer to his father,
