Treason. It was the greatest crime a person could commit. To betray your country, your own people.
Despite everything we had lost that day in the canyon, we had managed to take back several other things. Prisoners. Traitors. And today, they would face the people's judgement. Today was the trial of House Carne. In the chaos then ensued after I executed the emperor, the knights of the marquess's house had been abandoned. Many Démenci soldiers blamed them for the loss that they faced. Most did not escape the m******e. But those that did now faced me.
My first official act as queen would be to preside over the trial. Though we were able to arrest nearly one hundred of House Carne's soldiers, there would be one trial. For if the general was at fault, so too was his army. And it was no s
