The Magister has no idea how to respond to that.

So he turns his attention to the Queen, who is standing beside Russell, and looking properly humbled.

Actually, she's staring at her toes, and wishing very, very hard that she were somewhere else.

"Is it true what Northman says?" the Magister asks her.

Aware that she's being addressed, she raises her eyes to him and bobs her head in a nod. "Yes, Magister," she replies, quietly humiliated.

Now, here is territory that the Magister is more familiar with.

"Then I'm afraid I'm going to have to arrest you," he declares.

Sophie-Ann blinks, and looks to Russell and his stupid smiling face, and wonders why the fuck he isn't saying anything.

"By the powers vested in me by the authority I hereby--"