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0115: He Sat Outside The Door

Auteur: FlyingDove
last update Date de publication: 2026-07-18 00:54:30

ALICE'S POV

Morwen told me before I had the chance to find out on my own. Lisa was getting thirty lashes, at dawn, in the square. But that’s not the part that had me worried . I heard Lily had slipped past the nurses and seen part of her mother’s punishment before Benjamin got to her.

I'd wanted the truth out. I'd wanted him to stop protecting Lisa but not like this. I hadn't wanted this public show of punishment.

I felt sick to my stomach just thinking about the murmur of the onlookers from th
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