In Terracity, the year 3062

"State your crimes."The king says to the shackled man laying at his feet.

"I-I-I'm innocent! I didn't do anything!" The man starts to sob into his hands.

"His crimes include murder, robbery, and Creation of illegal weapons." The sheriff read off of a piece of paper. The others in the room gasp. Creation was illegal unless you were part of the government.

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"That's not true!" The man yells.

"Your punishment," the king shouted over the man's cries, "is death by public execution." The king turned to the serf standing by his throne. "Go find his family and bring them to me. They will all die for your insolence"

A few days later, the man stood in the middle of the town square, staring as the royal guards pulled his daughter to the chopping block. As the king raised his ax over his neck, the girl made eye contact with her father. Tears in his eyes, he looked away as the ax bit into her neck. His wife did the same. As he was pulled to the chopping block he thought, Please God, let everyone else escape this fate. The last thing he saw was the king staring at the heads of his family before everything went black.