I don't mean to upset you."We ate a little and then Anton asked me: "How long have you been hereexactly?"It seemed like a simple question. I had the ...now the answer. Ofcourse I did. What day is it? What date did I arrive? I suddenlyrealised that I did not know. I started to feel worried that memorywas going. I must have looked concerned because Hyrick stepped in."She's been with me about 9 months," he said. But I thought I was herefor only 6 months?"And you're a character from your own. He walked into the bedroom and saw me lying on the bed. ‘Mummy? Do you have a work headache?’ Thomas called my infrequent migraines ‘work headaches’ because I often got them at the end of a workday. But it was the perfect idea. I would feign a desperate headache. Peter would get the kids sorted and bring me in the occasional tea, but he would probably even sleep on the fold out bed to give me the space I needed to heal. This was the answer. ‘Yes my baby. Mummy has a rather bad work headache.’ . Stubbornness can be a pain, itprevented you from fully helping. But you did the right thing in theend, and it worked."He asked that the kids be brought into the courtroom. Jace and Joy sawEzekiel and gripped Reed and Jessie tightly, which Roy needed to see.They didn?t speak, but the two comforted the kids.Roy asked them to stand forward then proclaimed, "This hearing wasn?tnecessary. DCF had little to no actual involvement and why they weren?tinvolved is explained alongside why they never took. He too accepted 12 lashes with resolve and vowed he would do whatever Sir Torbert asked to make the Noble Guard noble again.Twelve recruits left for home that day. Many thought a resignation would allow them to forego the lashes. Torbert refused to accept their resignations, punished them and sent them home anyway.More surprising were the nine that accepted two additional lashes and offered a vow to help restore the Noble Guard image.Finally it was time for the man who had caused this outrage.
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