"You're under arrest." Five of them all dressed neatly with guns pointed. I'd been in back in town for a couple weeks, honestly that I got arrested shouldn't have been a surprise, that I'd gone this long without being arrested should have been a shock.
"Usually there's a charge for that." I know what little rights are accorded to people in these times.
"Murder." Shackles now, the real kind, guess they knew I was a magic user.
"I guess saying I didn't kill anyone recently wouldn't sway your decision to arrest me right?" Notice how I said recently, because lets be honest I'm a murderer unrepetent at that.
"If I were you, and I'm thankful I'm not I'd keep quiet." I'd met the captain of the guard once at a function, he seemed like a nice enough guy, Garian or something like that? At least he was offering advice though it was at the point of a partial insult. They had caught me at the shop (caught in this case being showed up armed and asked for me specifically) before I left I made sure to tell my staff to keep things running (by this point they pretty much did things without me anyway, its why you train people well, then they don't need you to hold their hand all the time/lets you sleep in). They had a horse cart waiting outside for me, I told them I could walk but they insisted. From there I was taken to the guard house, still in my shackles and tossed into a cell. At least I was by myself, even if the cell didn't offer any kind of privacy (bars in all directions not actual walls). The only furniture was a bolted down bench. I laid myself upon it and waited for whoever would come to explain my crimes.
You know its sad how routine me being locked up for killing people is! I mean you would think at this point with my acts of heroism (right we'll call it that) should I happen to kill anyone it should be seen as a good thing! I mean I'm hardly ever wrong, well recently in like the last two hundred years, that first hundred was excuse the pun, murder on my morality. All of that is to say that I knew I'd probably get convicted locked up and hopefully let out so I could live on, there was the worry I could be executed, but despite Ronerawth being all "Rarrr we hate crime." They really only had a hard on for executing traitors, not just jerks like myself. So if you have to committ a murder, do it in Ronerawth, they most likely won't execute you. Well unless you killed the emperor, than they'll make sure you suffer forever. See you've learned something now haven't you!
All of that was to explain that I sat on my ass for a week eating poor prison food and being visited by my assistants to ask for advice on very minor things and they were really coming to see how I was holding up but didn't want to admit it. And at the end of the week... Well things changed, as they always do for me, and you know the drill turn the page read tomorrows entry etc etc.
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