When Lance spoke about the truth, many people in the audience fell silent, perhaps because they didn't believe it, or perhaps because they had experienced something similar.
They might be victims, or perhaps perpetrators...
This wasn't a story Lance made up on the spot; its source is quite interesting.
It was a bureaucrat caught a few days ago, and during interrogation, he confessed that he was one of those villagers.
But after the woman was judged, the drought didn't end; instead, like a curse, even the last water source dried up, and the village chief was of no use.
Cracked earth, dry wells, withering vegetation, as if everything was engulfed in despair.
Related rumors became increasingly terrifying, and even the Church came by, but found nothing.
They were forced to leave the village and, like countless refugees, embarked on the road to exile, suffering greatly along the way, until finally rescued by the Lord and brought to Hamlet Town.
