After My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Into a Book, the System Made Us Seduce Each Other's Husbands novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: One Way Home
On the eve of the Blood Moon, Elora used the bronze key at the second bell, and the cell door swung open without a sound.
Mirelle's was already open.
She stood in the passage in her red gown with her hair in a rope, and Dacian was holding her hand.
Aurek waited at the foot of the stairs with a shuttered lamp.
"Forty-three nights in this try," said Dacian, "and this is the first time the stairs have been unguarded."
"Because the Empress wants a quiet night," said Aurek. "She believes her sons are drinking."
They crowded into Elora's cell, because it was the only one with a table.
Dacian laid a scroll tied with a red cord on the table and slid the knot loose.
"The Laws of Witness," he said. "Linnea kept them under a stack of letters. In forty tries, neither of us ever knew they existed."
Elora took the scroll and held it to the lamp.
The script was old, and she read it slowly, with one finger under each line.
Mirelle looked over her shoulder.
"Well?" she said.
"Any prince who has signed the order," Elora read, "may call the witness to the dais. The witness must lay her bare hand on the Ember Brazier and speak her testimony again. The flame will not burn the truth."
"And a lie?" asked Aurek.
"It does not say what it does to a lie."
"It burns," said Dacian, quietly. "My mother told me when I was a boy. She said the old kings used it to catch false priests."
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