Her own favored disciple took her to court, ruining her reputation and sending her to prison. Overnight, she fell from being the center of everyone's attention into the dirt, where she remained for twelve whole years.
She met him in her eleventh year in prison.
Dressed in a police uniform, he walked into the lightless solitary confinement cell and asked her, watching her back, "Why did you try to escape?"
She merely smiled faintly and pulled open her collar, revealing a hideous, fatal knife wound. "Because I'm not quite like the prisoners here."
Perhaps he had come here to investigate a case because fate meant for him to uncover one horrifying truth after another.
