“What do you have there?” Lucian asked.
She was shaking now. Lucian went up to her and took the hidden thing from behind her back. It was a golden hairpin, my hairpin. One of the guards quickly came to the front and fell to his knees in front of Lucian.
“I am sorry, Your Highness, it will never happen again; you can punish me instead” he begged. “Please spare her, she is just a child.”
She did look quite young. The white-faced maid fell to her knees too, shaking as much as before.
“No, please, it was my fault! Don’t punish my brother. He didn’t know” she cried.
I had no idea what Lucian would do to them. For that, I both pitied and feared for them. They might get executed, or if they had luck they would get their hands cut off. I didn’t know which one sounded worse.
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