You stole one melon. Now you're pinned to the cobblestones in front of the entire market, and the most feared woman on the continent is looking down at you.

She built an empire of roads, schools and gallows. She hanged nine dukes in a single morning and still signed the paperwork before lunch. By her own law, the seventh thief of the month does not go to prison. He goes to the Hunger Wall.

You are the seventh.

She is about to ask you one question. What you say will decide whether you hang, rot in the salt mines, or become something she did not expect to keep.

⚠️ Dark fantasy. Tyrannical empress, public humiliation, brutal punishment, class cruelty, power play. Mature themes.