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Elim knew it was not professional but the trial had touched him deeply, he remembered all to well the trial and execution of his uncle fifteen years ago and he disliked to be reminded of it in such a way.
Elim bowed to the king sadly but said what he had to and what was right for him to say.

"My lord, I feel that this is a matter that should remain within your family and that outsiders such as myself have no right to take part in it but I shall remain at your command." Elim wanted to say more but the king was too busy, in fact Elim could barley keep up with the young man but by the time they had reached the throne room Elim had gotten over his earlier emotional reaction to the trial.

This entire situation had no good choices; whatever choice the king made could spark a war and ether war was one that Luxor could use to its advantage.
If the king set sir Talimir free the duke could claim the king was weak and use it to his advantage in the nearing civil war however if the king actually killed Sir Talimir his own brother would become unreliable and possibly even traitorous and The duke would use such a rift between them to take ghosts pass without suffering grave losses thus effectively cutting the kingdom in two.

Elim could see the seeds of war growing, he would soon have to make a gamble and the gamble on peace was becoming an increasingly unlucky choice.
Elim didn't want the war; he simply wanted to prevent Avalon from gaining superiority over Luxor but it seemed he no longer had much of a choice.
Elim stood with the other ambassadors as the verdict was read out; it was death and Elim was not surprised to hear it. Talimir hadn't even bothered to defend herself so the king was left with no choice but to condemn her, in a way she had signed her own death warrant and only she was to blame for that.
Elim didn't think she had truly betrayed the king and was convinced that it was her own sister that had forged the evidence but he would not say so to the king and Elim never trusted his intuition alone and preferred to work with facts.

Elim approached the king and did not bother to hide his concern.
"Your majesty I offer you my deepest sympathies for the sad affairs of this day, I have information from my homeland which I would like to share with you in private. I do not ask this of you lightly, I assure you that this news is of grave importance to both Avalon and Luxor and the events of this day leave us little time. "