Prologue
While the kingdom of Tska ran amok preparing for the upcoming battle with their neighbours, the king had an unusual increase of unjust cases tormenting him like the heavy swinging pendulum.
The court jester found ways to alleviate it as it was his strongest suit. Each year the challenge of cajoling the king back to his dandy self grew difficult and presently it was found to be at its peak.
The jester locked his stare at the ashen canary in the royal cage and with miffed heart thought, Fie upon the jester's block, can't believe I'm resorting to underhanded measures but the bard-ess might be the perfect cure !
Enter Sap, the bard-ess who majored in asking questions that were thought to be nonsensical to the rest.
Yet the jester saw pure inquisitiveness through the veil and hopefully thought the king would see as well.
"The Edict of 2301 states each subject is to be responsible of them-self and are free to express themselves individualistically. Then pray, do tell me why would a subject expressing their true evil self would be rewarded with dungeons and punishment? Rather shouldn't they be applauded for being true to themselves?"
It wouldn't be a surprise to hear the sharp clang of the royal hammer to the maids outside the throne room.
What was surprising was that there was absolutely no taunts or howls or screeches from the new law breaker but rather cusses gushed like a colourful geyser from the King!
"GUARDS! DEPORT THIS WITCH OF A TRANGRESSOR TO THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT! HOW DARE YE MAKE MOCKERY OF THE LAWS OF MY EMPIRE! TAKE AWAY THIS LUNACY OF HAG! "
It eventually boiled to the point where His Majesty's ire got irked by her inquisitiveness and decided to reward Sap with an ultimatum.
It was either death or writing confinement.
And so Sap started writing...
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