Nobody answered immediately, then lina looked at me and I knew I wasn’t going to like whatever came next.
“When sacred heirlooms disappear,” she said carefully, “the accused undergoes public
punishment until confession or recovery.”
Cold spread through my chest. “
Punishment?”
Mira laughed sharply in disbelief. “Absolutely not.”
The elder near the bookshelf remained unmoved. “The
punishment is symbolic.”
“Symbolic?” Mira repeated furiously. “You just said public
punishment.”
“It is tradition,” he replied flatly.
I looked between all of them slowly. “What kind of
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