Memories from that day.

"I am staying on my knees in a huge and dark cell, the heavy chains are weighing my inferior and superior members. The clothes on me are almost thorn apart and my body is all covered in bruises and blood. You can not imagine that this pitiful creature was a few hours before the princess of a prosperous nation. The way I was looking then and the way I am looking now is completely different but that does not matter in this moment. I don't care about anything right now, I only want this torture to end faster. My eyes are filled with tears and my heart with sadness. I don't even have the strength to hate them anymore. I have lost everything I loved. I just want to sleep. Will they let me sleep now?

I have no strength to find out the answer. My eyes are slowly closing and the heavy body falls to the ground. I am losing my senses and can only feel the cold floor. Everything is dark."

"Suddenly , I am coming back to life when someone throws cold water on the lifeless body. An inquisitor sits on a chair in front and starts talking to me: "Your highness, do you admit your crimes? All this will end when you will confess. Don't you want it to end?"

Hearing that, I start to question him:

Crimes? What crimes? I haven't done any crime!

I don't even know why I am being imprisoned and treated like a slave. The only thing that I remember was the banquet last evening and that I was suddenly dragged down here, tortured and chained. This is the way to treat your princess? Who ordered you to do this? My father will never forgive your insolence!

He cuts my speech yelling at me:

You still dare to call yourself the princess of this state after murdering the Emperor? You unfiliar beast! You're guilty of killing the Emperor! You are going to be sentenced to death. Nothing can save you from this and no one would dare to defend the emperor's murderer. You killed your own father.

The room becomes silent for a couple of minutes.

I was shocked hearing these bad news. It seems that my father, the emperor, was killed during the last evening banquet and they made me the scapegoat. Who could have done it? My mind freezes but the tears continue to flow. I have no way to prove my innocence. These people won't simply believe the words of a prisoner. In the eye of my people I am only a murderer in the actual moment, the one who assassinated the emperor, the one who must pay for this crime.

I desperately try to explain every move I made during the banquet and to create a credible alibi but the inquisitor shows me the contradictory proves. How is this possible? All the clues lead to me. Someone must have falsified these clues.

I beg him to give me the chance to defend myself and ask him to investigate the matter carefully. I wasn't caught in the act, I was only being accused by someone. He only gives me three days to find out the truth.

Right now, only from one person I can ask for help, my loved sister. I hope that she believes in me. I would never hurt anyone. How can they say that I killed the Emperor? My father....

Our father...

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