<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9f/2b/0d/9f2b0d5bcb238fa2413cdb8deecaecb9.jpg)</div>Ashley adjusted her mouth, finally free of the gag. She thought a moment as she took a deep breath. An accusation against the judge's friend would not go well.<br/>"<strong>I'm afraid your dear friend, Azon, has been fooled. Which is often the case, tricksters seek to take advantage of honorable men, and through this honorable man he hopes to do injustice towards me.</strong>" she looks around the room, "<strong>but we all know lies will not succeed here.</strong>" her voice gets louder as she gains confidence. "<strong>I never met the accuser before he made his accusations. I never made a bargain to entertain him, and I had just entered the city. All witnesses in my caravan can attest I was traveling with them, and then the Inn Keeper can attest that I entered the Inn with one friend, and then went to my room alone. The Inn Keeper can also attest that I was alone when they came to draw me a bath. I was alone until one from my caravan abducted me, in order to lay these false charges against me. There is no room in events for what he claims. He will have the word of all who've seen me that none of this could have happened against the words of any of his unscrupulous accomplices.</strong>"<br/>She turns towards Azon, still speaking to him as if he was not in on it. "<strong>Do not let your honorable trust in our fellow man cloud your judgment to make yourself a pawn of the wicked.</strong>"