Hopeless Night: Day 7

Word Count: 42,005

Summary of Events:
Chapter 13:
Herr Dichter appealed to have the case heard by the king, being as everyone was tired of hearing the same information over and over. Emma made her return to the kitchen as they transferred from the summer kitchen to the main kitchen.
Chapter 14:
Georg was awed by Geizenstadte as they arrived and got settled into their hotel. Emma was back at work in the kitchen, and Josepha suddenly resumed being irritable again. Magnus gave his testimony one final time before King Frederick XVIII and the Court went to deliberate . . .

Excerpt of the Day:
"The longer it took, though, the more uncertain Magnus became. King Frederick and the Court were taking forever. Conversation was still keeping on with the others — mainly because they were going off and starting conversations with other people — but Magnus was starting to feel a fear building up within himself.
They had to be convicting him. They had to be sentencing him to hang from the gallows Magnus had seen in the yard in front of the King's Courthouse. He'd cringed at the sight of it, raised up off the ground, the platform beneath it, the loop of the rope hanging, waiting to be fitted around the next man's neck, waiting to become taut when the platform was dropped open.
Magnus nearly felt the rough court tightening around his neck and startled. He shook his head and settled himself back in the courtroom. The door opened and the Court headed back to their seats. Everyone then rose to their feet and King Frederick returned to the room, taking his seat on his stand again.
"This is indeed a very confusing case," King Frederick began. "Both sides have convincing arguments and solid evidence in their favour. It is quite difficult to discern what the answer should be."
Magnus felt a fear bringing cool to his breastbone. Terror was starting to chill him, panic was beginning to make him tremble. It took everything within him to hold himself together lest he interrupt the king.
"We have agreed that there are only two suspects in this case: Herr Georg Kenner, and Herr Magnus Kenner," King Frederick continued. "There is no other possibility that is in any way reasonable or legitimate based on the evidence that we have acquired, although this verdict does not, by any means, prohibit any of the members of the Court, or any of the Bevollmächtigter from seeking out more evidence to test the viability of alternate theories."
Couldn't he just hand down the verdict already? Magnus was going to absolutely loose it if he didn't say what the verdict was soon.
"Being as it will surely take some time to compile any evidence that might bring about reason for a retrial, and being as the Kaingsvoldisch Zeigreisch does not have any facilities for the imprisonment of accused men," King Frederick continued. "It has taken some due deliberation to decide our course of action in regards to this incredibly unique case, being as it cannot well and easily be determined which of the Herrs Kenner are guilty of the charge."
Magnus felt an unexpected relief rush through him. He wasn't being hung? Or were they just both going to be hung? Magnus had a feeling that no hanging was going to come out of this. But he wasn't sure as to what was going to happen.
"However," King Frederick went on. "We have reached a verdict. Our verdict is that, until it is that further evidence has been brought forward to reach a conviction, Herr Magnus Kenner, the accused, is sentenced to slavery.""

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