Jester by Brielle D. Porter

Author:Brielle D. Porter [Porter, Brielle D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CamCat Publishing

CHAPTER TWENTY

“What in the nine hells have you done, boy?” His father is not angry, and that is perhaps the most distressing thing to the boy. He is anguished.

“I did what you taught me—”

“I never taught you to go against the Crown! You absolute, mewling fool . . .”

Scraggly bushes and sun-beaten fences blur in front of the boy’s unseeing eyes as the high judge’s motorcar speeds them away from the debacle at court. After the boy’s outrageous sentence, before his father could spirit him away, the court had quickly devolved into madness.

“Perhaps there’s a way to still make this right. You are still only an apprentice, which means according to law seventeen, statute B . . .”

The boy listens to his father ramble in silence. In all his nineteen years, he has never seen his father frightened before. Angry, yes. Disgruntled, certainly. But never afraid. The high judge pours himself a drink with shaking hands but doesn’t drink any of it.

“After everything I’ve done for the Crown . . . there’s no way . . . a silly, youthful mistake . . .”

“What else could I have done?” the boy protests. “The evidence was irrefutable, spoken from the mouth of one who cannot lie!”

His father, the man with a resolve of stone, of unwavering morality, or so the boy thought, regards him with an ashen face.

“The dead cannot lie. But you should have.”

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