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But Kamran had never before witnessed a child commit suicide.
“I’ve been invited to the ball tomorrow night as a special guest of the king.” He retrieved a heavy, gilded scroll from his inside pocket, unfurling it on the table before her. “See? It says just there”—he pointed several times—“just there it says I can bring one guest to the royal ball.”
—and sentence you to an indefinite period of imprisonment in the royal dungeons, whence you will be released only to perform your duties, during which you will remain under strict surveillance, and after which you will be retur—” “You would sentence me to this fate without trial, Your Majesty? Without proof? Have you gone mad?”