“Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye,” the Speaker of the Commons shouted over the clamor. “This joint emergency session of Parliament has been called to investigate the circumstances and facts surrounding the arrest of our Prime Minister. I have just received word the Emperor answered our Writ of Habeas Corpus."
Jophiel cringed. Here it was … the foal, so to speak, was about to be let out of the bag.
“Bring the accused before the general court,” the Speaker said.
They came then, the Emperor's Cherubim guard, not the defenders of a god these people loved, but the oppressors of someone they loved even more, the man who had ruled in his father's stead for 200 years after the Emperor had abandoned them to pursue his grief. They came two-by-two-by-two, surrounding him so he had no hope of escape, and
