Taking matters into his own hands...

"You...!" Kendel's eyes were shooting daggers at Mika.

"Who me?..." Mika pointed at herself.

"Yes, you!"

"Couldn't be..."

"Then, who!?..... Who would do this to me other than you...!" Kendel motion to the other people in the room, and could come up think of anyone else who would frame him this way other than Mika.

"What did I do to you, uncle?"

"You-you-you....told!"

"Told what?.... That you took me from Lord Tasar, that you wanted me to write a letter to my father asking for money, that you wouldn't let me go home nor bring me back to the Udava clan...Is this what uncle Kendel is talking about?...I'm sorry, but uncle Kendel never said it was supposed to be a secret." Mika smiled at Kendel's stunned face.

The niece he once thought of as slow and spoiled was now staring at him with contempt in her eyes.

Terrified by the turn of events, Kendel tried to make a last-ditch effort to plead for mercy from Prince Ailwin.