It was neither Cassarae, nor the Thorn Matriarch or Grand Thorns, that spoke first. Instead, it was a member unknown to Cassarae who unfurled a scroll and began to read off the atrocities that Cassarae had committed.
Cassarae just let her read, the list of crimes getting longer, and longer, and even longer than that, until she topped it off with what felt like nothing more than insult to injury.
"… These crimes were levied and sanctioned approximately one month, one week, three days, seventeen hours, thirty-six minutes, and… thirteen seconds ago. Adjusting based on the time it's taken Thorn Cassarae Grimblade to return as she should, there is an additional sanction for every day for the first week, every hour for the first month beyond this, and every minute beyond this first month. This multiplies the current sanctions to—."
"Are you done yet?" Cassarae asked, seemingly having finally grown impatient.
