Chapter Forty-Seven: Present: Unseen: The line rises

"It was execution! A brutal one at that!" Leo snapped, outraged at what had taken place. Slightly nauseated at the brutality of the very same people that were supposed to be protecting us, not killing us.

"Sure it was but the council needed to leave a reminder, one that would assure that no one else would make the same decisions. Taurus herself should've been whipped also for stepping out and stopping them. She and many others, even me had no voice nor say in what could happen and what could not."

"I remember that day was cold but after that whipping, I suddenly befriended death and death had no friends," Huitaca said as she traced her arm scar, the one she had received when the whip had coiled around her harshly.

"But father, why had you not stopped them? why even give them up? Could you not have pretended?"