Chapter 559: The Trial - Part 5

And so Oliver Patrick was seated, his place in the trial was taken. From where he sat, he could see much of the room. His place was in nowhere inferior to the Ministers on their raised platform, and the thrones in which they sat. He was put up even higher than then, so that the crowd could see he who was being judged, but he could also see them just as well. He would not dare complain about such a position, not when it was such a perfect antidote to a week spent not being able to see anything interesting – now he could easily pick apart every face in the room, studying them.

As the trial commenced, he did just that. He sat watching steadily, and calmly, like the owl that was fastened to his chest.