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“Grey didn’t kill them,” Ada said, louder this time.
t.i.tus Granbehl’s hand reached up to cover his daughter’s mouth. “Ada! What are you—”
Slipping from her parents’ grasp, she stepped toward the judges. Words began to spill from her in rush as her face grew more and more red. “I was trapped in a mirror and Grey was trying to save me but Ezra wouldn’t listen and freed the horned ascender from the magic mirror while Grey was working with this artifact thing, and the other ascender killed my brothers, and I would have been stuck there forever but Grey saved me.”
The girl hid her face in her hands as her parents stood stiffly to either side of her.
Darrin gave me a victorious look before turning to Blackshorn. “Well, there you—”
“Lord Granbehl,” Blackshorn said, speaking over my council, “it is clear that your daughter is incredibly distressed. While we appreciate your blood’s bravery in attending this trial in person, it is the opinion of this panel that we cannot accept Ada’s testimony at this time, and will instead use the written account of events we have already received.”
Ada gaped up at the high judge as her father nodded, his cheek twitching as he suppressed a smirk.
“You may go, all of you,” Blackshorn added.
The chains began tightening once more as I failed to suppress my growing annoyance. I pressed my hand into the sharp, twisted metal where I’d torn the armrest free, letting the pain burn bright in my mind as it cut into my skin.
Someone behind me yelled out how this wasn’t fair, wrapped neatly in a string of curses, and in seconds the entire courtroom had exploded into a chorus of shouts and insults being thrown at the judges.
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