Call for Confirmation
Dec. 5th, 2009 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfan"Then listen very carefully." The voice at the farther end of the tube was as cold and hollow as a grave. "You wish to walk from the court a free man, and hold as ransom for that freedom a certain manuscript, the very existence of which has not yet been confirmed."
"I wish no more than a fair trial," I said, just as coldly. "And as for the manuscript, it exists. I spent several months composing it."
"And the allegations within it?"
"Are merely allegations," I admitted. "They are not enough to convict any man in a court of law."
"I wish no more than a fair trial," I said, just as coldly. "And as for the manuscript, it exists. I spent several months composing it."
"And the allegations within it?"
"Are merely allegations," I admitted. "They are not enough to convict any man in a court of law."
