Snippet #2478471

After been dismissed by her aunt, Soneanna decided she wanted to check out the chaos for herself. Despite things getting heated down in La'ita Hara, she didn't believe that she'd be the target of any danger and now here she was, watching a woman and two others been surprisingly vocal about it all. She carefully moved herself to the front of the crowd to watch.

"People of Volaria soon won't get their trials. Maybe this is the start of injustice. Where public beheadings become a common thing for every person whether they are guilty or not! Why hasn't this stage been taken down?" She heard the leading female shout, as she looked around the crowd.

She frowned wondering if her aunt would really be like that. Surely this was just a one of thing, no matter how much she disagreed with the whole thing.

"Oh look, one of the royals has appeared." Miley suddenly shouted.

Soneanna looked up only to realise that too her horror, everyone was now looking at her. Miley knew who she was.

"Come on up, Royal. After all, you are the niece of the Matriarch, am I right?"

"I'd rather stand down here." Soneanna replied.

"No, no. I insist." Miley smirked. Two people that were in agreement with Miley grabbed Soneanna's arms bringing her up onto the stage. She wasn't afraid that they'd do something bad as retribution, but she wasn't going to lie, she was concerned.

"What do you think about what happened here?" Miley asked.

Soneanna stayed silent.

"Oh, so the royal decides not to be vocal about her aunt. Tight lipped and sticking up for a murderer!" Miley grinned.

"I'm not sticking up for a murderer. I never said anything. It doesn't matter if it was right or wrong now, the matter is over. The man is dead."

"Did he deserve to die? If you were in her shoes, would you have done the same thing, Soneanna?"

Again she was silent, but this time only for a moment. "I wouldn't have let it gone that far to begin with, or I would have given him mercy when he cried for it." She admitted.

"And there you have it." Miley shouted. "Even her own niece thinks she's a murderer!"

"I didn't say that! I said there are better ways to go about it than how it played out. And there are better ways to go about this then riling people up like you are!"

Miley just laughed and shook her head. "Your aunt is a murderer. And this time we're not going to stand by and let her get away with her actions. For every action there is a consequence. She will have to justify her reasons for killing that man without a fair trial for all to hear and all to judge. Shanthi deserves justice, but she deserves it from the right person, not the wrong. That man begged for mercy. He didn't know he had even come here to die. We have rights and his was ignored, whether he was guilty or not."

Soneanna looked down to see a crowd of locals starting to get physical that were disagreeing with each other. This woman had caused quite the stir.