I am sorry?

"I am sorry..." Liandra said meekly, "I don't know what..."

"Save it. The victims have spoken, and despite their exaggerations the truth has already been divined" Anger burned behind the eyes Liandra loved

"But I didn't..." Liandra started to say

"Are you going to say you didn't attack the Imperial patrol?" Kendra´s accusation felt like a sharp dagger

"No, but that was a mistake" the princess plead her case, but it fell into deaf ears. Eventually Liandra broke out in tears, no words could persuade her friend and lover.

"I cant say I am sorry, Liandra" but she was, Liandra knew in her hurt heart "It is a hard law, but it is the law." There was a silence between them, and something she knew had to be filled.

"A long time ago, it seems like ages now, I was still an apprentice learning the craft, although I considered myself wise enough to judge the world. I was cleaning one of my tutor´s laboratory when I heard weeping. I looked for it and I found an entrance to a secret chamber. I knew it was wrong, but I intruded this hidden place out of foolhardy sense of justice." Liandra still felt the tears wetting her face, but she paid attention.

"I found the source of weeping, an angel held in bondage. His wrists and ankles were chained, and his neck; his entire body was covered in lashes, even his wings were red with blood. I wondered who could do such a thing to this beautiful being? I freed him"

"I didn't only free him, I helped him out of the room, he could barely walk. While we were in the dark corridor... I still remember when he pushed me against the wall, and tore my garments. he taunted me for failing my teachings. I though he would violate me there and then, and to my horror I even realized a part of me wanted it to happen."

"It never came. I pleaded for mercy even as he said he would ravage the World, I begged him to spare my virginity while he promised me he would raise an army of demon-spawn in the wombs of **** virgins. He just agreed to it. A boon, he said, in thanks for freeing him. I never found him, and I don't know if I will ever stop regretting my choice."

"Tomorrow you will endure the Emperor´s justice. Under our laws, you may ask to compensate those you hurt rather than suffer the scourge of Balazar, punisher of the wicked."