20: Amber Returns to Servitude

During the early hours of the morning, Amber was taken by Arnold to see her mother. Arnold went to Miriam’s cell and greeted her.

“Someone is here to see you.” He said.

She looked curiously to find Amber rushing towards her and they were separated by the bars of iron but they could hold hands through the open holes offered by the bars and they both cried from the happiness of seeing each other again.

Eventually, the news went around that Amber had returned. It was after the King made her sit before the town crier who wrote down her story.

Amber told a tale of how she had been forced to look for Isis’s bowl during the storm, how she had fallen inside the river and couldn’t remember anything except waking up at some shore in the forest where she had to survive and find her way home after she was helped by a hunter who pointed her to the right path.

The story was believed and the King summoned Isis concerning Amber’s accusation about being made to go out in the night during the storm