The Baron of Latiz (22)

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Samh 9.30.1339 20:09

When Kieron returned, the judge, baliff, and the two appointed lawyers for each side were waiting. Amoranda asked immediately to see the marriage license before escorting Kieron and the justice of the peace into the parlor where all were waiting. On it she was surprised to see her name. However, upon giving it to the judge, he instantly recognized that it had been forged. The details of the case were quickly laid out and the evidence presented. Kieron’s appointed lawyer asked for more time to present their side, but the judge overruled it on grounds any evidence he proposed to gather would have no effect on the case. The judge requested private audience with the justice of the peace during the trial, who left in shame and who, they were told, was soon to lose her position for not calling the license into question. 

Kieron, when presented with the option to pay the bond immediately or go to jail, chose to pay the bond. The judge then fined him for forging a marriage license, and sentenced him to two years community service. Both Amoranda and Katamitoria were given restraining orders against him, and Kieron was told he would go to prison for a long time if the judge ever saw him again. 

When Kieron realized how matters went, he decided any complaint would be folly on his part and might get him a worse sentence.

“Can you forgive me for the injuries I have done you, Katamitoria?” he asked in the poorest display of acting Amoranda had ever seen. “I admit, I planned to wrong this innocent woman, but I have been inwardly remorseful for all I had done,” he informed the judge. 

The trial concluded and the funds were instantly transferred from Kieron’s account to Katamitoria’s account. Two robosentinals escorted Kieron off the property and the information about the restraining order was uploaded into their database so if he tried poking around again, they could immediately detain him and hand him over to the authorities. 

It was very late by the time everything concluded and the judge and lawyers left. Amoranda had one of her maids show Katamitoria to her room and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.