A light and a void ( Lute x sinner reader)

Part 18: Background

No one's pov:

The court stood silent for a brief moment, no one dared to say another word....Not the men, not the women and not even the small chatta children sitting at the back

It was dark, perhaps a little too dark in the gigantic room with only the large windows gifting a generous amount of daylight to everyone as the all sat quietly in their seats, waiting for the judge himself to finally decide if you were innocent or not. If you'd have to get executed or get released from these hard-knotted ropes around your wrists that would surely leave s mark.

The seaconds ticked away for what feelt like literal hours with just looking at the judge dead-serious eyes, not a single trail of sympathy was left inside him,.

You breathed heavy threw your nose and you feelt cold sweat streamming down your already comd face, not daring to make a single squeak. You were fully aware that this was either life or death....

Even though you didn't see you could feel your family's anxious faces and even your little siblings tears behind your back. You knew that they were sitting right behind you, waiting just as patiently for the final answer as you were right now. You were sure that your mother was at the edge of tears by now with your father rubbing her back to sooth her distress and your poor siblings were shaking.

You have always protected them , always looked out for them and if you disapeared then what would happen to them...?

Only the judge who sat behind his bench made a sound by quickly adjusting his messy and bitter-scenting tupé and hummed, ready to announce it as he picked up his gavel, catching everyones attention.

Everyone whisperd to eachother as you bit your lip so hard that it almost bleed.

Finally, he got his bench, letting the loud noise clasp over the entire hall as he cleared his throath, looking down at you as if you were a dirty instect
" Y/n L/n, thy hereby found guilty of associating witches and defending them during trials and now hereby sentenced to death by hanging."

Your eyes widen in pure terror before you raised up from your seat, slamming your fists into the table infront of you in suck force that it took everyone in shook
" No! I'm completely innocent and so were them."

And you truly were, you didn't mean for any of this to happen.

For these past few months you started to question the judges vision and belives in ghost and such nonsense to the point that you started defend the woman and men who were accused of working for the devil or being witches. This ofcourse drove everyone to point you out as one of the Devils minion and now you sat here, wrists tied up and two guards standing behind you to prevent you from escaping.

" Cry you mercy!"
The jugdge gasped, looking at you, offended by you snapping at him like that.

You could hear everyone gasp at your response at the judge, no one had ever speaked like that to him before. Their gasps and hitched whispers filled the rooms atmosphere and made the whole tension more stimma than it already was.

Even your family were jolted back by your sudden rebelious actions against him.

" Ay, thou are guilty!
You snapped your head back only to twist your face in displease when you saw her, your grumpy neigbor raising from her seat to point at you, accusenly
"I saw thou flying on a broom above my house!"
She spat at you, her voice laced in bitterness, tho you saw a grin forming on her faxe afterwards wich made you wanna punch her

Your eyebrows furrowed even more, you'd never liked her pressance, let alone her terrorizing your family. She was in the end most of the cause that you ended up in this court-room in the first place, accusing you of witchery for just defending innocent people..........

You only snapped back again with fury boiling inside of you
" Thou are mad and dizzy! That's not the truth!"
You turned back to the judge and clasped your hands together, desperate for mercy
" Thou honor, that's just simple mardle! Don't belive it!"

But the judghe shut you up by raising his hand and scolding you
🎶You better sit still and respect me, check your behavior!🎶

His face twisted into a disgusted grimace at you
🎶You're a demon, a traitor to jesus christ~🎶

Almost everyone in the court-hall nodded, bluntly agreeing with the judge as he continued to sing
🎶Now you'll face your crimes, you devil. To Hell we'll send you tonight!🎶

You growled at his hateful words, it filled you with so much anger that you raised your voice and sang with all your heart, echoing the entire hall
🎶Call yourself a saint , but  i know that you're deep a hypocritical sinner!🎶
You shook your head
🎶But naive i ain't!🎶

You screamed as loud as your lungs could carry on, not holding back anything. They won't back down and if this is truly your last few hours you're alive you're gonna let off some steam
🎶I know that you hide it with false words and the church riches!🎶

At this point the whole court was silent, not even the guards were trying to slap you into obedience, just staring wide eyed at you as everyone else did.
🎶Mad that i'm being respectless? Well there's no way i'm respecting this!🎶

" Enough!"
The judge snapped back tl reality, slamming his hands to the desk, face all red like a tomato and gritting his teeth in fury before pointing at me
" Guards, lead this filthy demon to the village centrum.."

I just tsk'd at him before the guards rougly took me by both the arms, dragging me fiercsly across the hall despite me protest and clawing at them with all my energy as everyone gawed at me but i stopped refusing midsentence when i locked eyes with my crying family who hugged eachother tight as they watched me getting dragged out...... to me execution..........

And later to Hell............

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Y/n L/n
Beloved kid, sibling and accused of witchery
1698 - 1724

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