Chapter 37: 37: Executing the priest

Under the attentive gaze of the crowd, the guard broke the royal seal and carefully unfolded the parchment.

The parchment contained an account of Bartholomew's sins, validated by the Queen's Court.

It detailed how Bartholomew had looted the dignity of young devotees and blackmailed them to keep quiet and if that didn't work, he killed them and threw their corpses in the forest for the wolves to eat. He only targeted orphans who had no one to look out for them.