Her brows arched when the... «Beneath the Citadel»
RamingoWS11 октября 2018Her brows arched when the chancellor asked her if she had anything to say in her defense. "Just pass your judgement and be done with it," she said, a touch of irritation in her tone. "I`ve got better things to do than stand around watching old people hem and haw over my choices." The chancellor`s first urge was to ask her what better things she had to do, considering the rest of her short life would be spent in a cell. But she was staring at him with such unblinking, uncompromising displeasure that the words died in his throat. "This council will now pronounce its judgement," he said. She eyed each council member in turn as they spoke, and then her gaze swiveled back to the chancellor expectantly. He cleared his throat. Why did he feel like a schoolboy again? For seers` sake, she was only seventeen. "In accordance with the judgement of this council, you are found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death in the customary manner." Alys sighed, and it sounded absurdly like relief. "Finally," she said. "Maybe in the future you should consider a more efficient means of sentencing people to death. Surely there are better uses of the council`s time than all this pomp and circumstance." Before the chancellor could say another word, she had turned on her heel to go. The guards rushed to her side in a vain attempt to make it seem that they were escorting her and not the other way around.
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