THE FIVE ON TRIAL
“Get down!” Yelled Brick.
They were forced down from the cart and led into the Great Hall itself. Everyone inside was in a uniform of some kind, mostly pink, many black, and others red and orange, each depicting which part they played in the new order of Fortuna.
On the raised platform in front of the great window that looked out over the golden corn were two of those who’d once met in Old Pen’s printing works to organise the Great Games that would bring down Rasper. Green Runner, and Charcoal Cheryl looked down on them. Rasper was forgotten. Having defeated him they were all for Fortuna.
They stared with hard faces as the five were brought in and pushed roughly into a pen that had been erected in the middle of the huge space. They knew that there would be no mercy,
