Ves nursed his aching head as he sat alone in a waiting room in the courthouse building. Protector guards were placed both inside and outside the room in order to keep him apart from anyone else.
This protection was quite necessary, because he just shocked the entire Protectorate!
Now, he was paying the price. He expended quite a bit of spiritual energy when he got caught up in his extraordinary rant.
He didn't mean to say all of that much to the Ylvainans! He just wanted to use their blind faith against them in order to turn black into white and get them to lay off on stealing and destroying one of their relics.
Instead of doing that, he went far beyond the pale and exorcirated the entire Ylvaine Protectorate! Not only did he admonish the Poxco Dynasty, he also torched the other two dynasties whose backing he depended upon to go free!
How could he be so stupid to directly disparage his own backers?!
