While Ronald was talking with Yue Fei in front of the forest at the border of Zakrosia, inside the dungeon of the Castle in Durant, Prince Akriar Grur was restrained on the Torture Rack, with Haje Sonanji slowly turning one wheel and Sholma Cuss reading aloud the new laws in Rediorumia.
Thoza Kawenne was seated at the edge of the bed of the Prince’s cell, with her hands covering her ears.
When Haje made a one-half turn of the wheel at the top of the table, he warned the Prince: “From this point on, this will hurt a lot. Before we continue, do you understand why the new laws in Rediorumia are changing your people’s minds and why you are being punished?”
“Yes… I even know you are doing this to break me and to force me to change, but you are doing a lousy job because I can just feel pain a
