Fortunately, it seemed like Ahnasha's show of tough love had worked. He quickly became submissive, then laid down on the ground. She leaned her head back out into the hall to see Lorag stepping out to investigate. She calmly waved him back into the cell with Galsek, then moved to approach Fendros. Though she kept a reasonable distance at first, once Fendros began to revert back to Dunmer form, she relaxed completely. He was of course regretful once he was back in his right mind, but Ahnasha tried not to take much of what he said to heart. He was being influenced by the primal, emotional nature of his beast spirit; although, the words he had said did not just come from nowhere. The scars of what they had experienced were still tearing at his mind, just as they were for hers. The only difference between them was that she had more experience controlling her beast spirit. 

"You scared Rhazii, but other than that, no." Ahnasha answered as she slowly sat down beside Fendros on the floor. She put her left arm around his shoulders, while holding Rhazii in her right. He was not crying as loudly as before, but was still whining and had his face pressed against his mother for comfort, muffling the sounds he made. "So...what happened? What caused it, you think?"

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Meesei nodded to Harriet. "You are not incorrect. You murdered Jerrick, the leader of the clan, in cold blood at the influence of one of Vile's servants. You took away the father of a boy who had already lost his birth mother, and killed the husband of a dedicated leader of this clan. You did so in cold blood, without giving him the chance to fight. For this crime, death is the only punishment. Vera has requested that it be a merciful execution, and I intend to follow that suggestion. If you still care about the clan, about the people who were loyal enough to you follow you to the end, despite everything that was arrayed against you, I would ask that you give a public confession of your crime. Let them have no doubts that might cause more hardship for them later. As you said, you are defeated, so there is no longer a purpose to lies and secrecy. But your now, tell me your story. Let me hear, from your own mouth, what you did, and why you did it. I do not think you will find Hircine's redemption will be easy to gain, but perhaps you can start now, before your soul departs Tamriel."