Until The Last Day
The surface glowed red.
“Drink,” Vincent commanded. “This is your binding.”
Camela noticed the dark liquid shimmering inside, she closed her eyes in disgust.
"No!" she replied.
Gasps echoed through the hall.
The fox-masked judge stepped forward, tapped the silver goblet. "Then refuse," he urged.
Camela, still on her knees, refused. "I love my mother more than your power," she said, her voice shaky but firm.
A strange silence spreads throughout the room. Then, a judge wearing a white mask nodded slowly. "Wrong decision, but brave."