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The rest of the story came out after the constables dragged you in. You got the sense Letha was more disappointed in your demonstration of the punch you'd tried to throw than anything else.

With the papers burned up, there wasn't much you could say to the constables. Letha had little recourse but to confess to the murder, and was rewarded with a sentence of execution. You, as her accomplice, were to be imprisoned for life.

Shut away in a tiny cell in Elith for the next month, you missed the start of the days that shook the nation of Ithos to its core. The sightings of demons across the land, from tiny ancient Pasema to just outside the royal palace in Archa. The call for heroes to reseal the opening portal to the demon realm. The rumors of a prophecy.

The first you heard of any of it was when Letha, somewhat ragged from imprisonment but almost as broad-shouldered as ever, opened the door of your cell and offered a hand to pull you to your feet.

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