Malcolm Gant sat in the Haeseni clinic for quite some time. Seconds, minutes and hours passed as he sat numb. He reminisced about the awful things he said about his sister that day in the square of Karosgrad. Overwhelming grief and guilt flooded his head, and stomach. He is not new to death, nor to executions. Both of those were ideas he had accepted as soon as Haense officially went to war. But this was different. He never realized how different it would be when it was his own kin's blood on the executioner's blade. The blood of someone you have spent countless hours messing around and having fun, going to foreign nations to pick the grapes from their vineyards without being spotted or even starting a fight with the Rutherns at the docks. The Gant knew this had to happen, that it was bound to happen. His sister went off with the enemy and paid the consequences of doing so. He should be angry at her for leaving. He should be proud an enemy was slain by the Kingdom. He knew she was that enemy to the Kingdom,
but he only felt grief.