his kin.” “What happens if no one can pay the fine?” Amaranthe asked as if she didn’t know perfectly well. The corporal slumped. “They stay here. One hundred eighty days in a cell.” “Well, I’m just a simple farmer, sir, and I’ll never have that much money to spare, but if you’d release them and let me put them back to work, I’d sure be grateful.” “Can’t let them go without a fitting punishment.” “Oh, they’ll be punished.” Amaranthe smiled and pointed at the heretofore silent Sicarius. “Pa here, he’s the farm dis-ci-pli-nar-i-an. He was a soldier and he knows how to lay into a man an’ make him
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