Author's Note

Sorry ahead of time, this may be a complete shit chapter but it's just because it's 4am and this is a transition chapter, meant to fill the gap but not to worry a proper chapter will be coming along shortly after this.

Colgate's Entertainment Entry #10

Equestrian Law Chapter 62 : Section 42
The penalty for murder is death.

As Colgate woke one morning, all she could hear was screaming and yelling. Her eyes were still adjusting, the world around her blurry and distorted as she tried to wake herself. The bed below her a mess of mangled sheets with a fine robe dangling from the end of it, evidence of what happened last night with Berry.

In her morning daze she had not even noticed the yelling. She stood up and stumbled toward the door expecting Berry to be waiting for her in the kitchen, happy to see everything was going as planned she stopped at the top of the stairs and gave her head a shake, her mane flying about with the shake of her head and the blinking of her eyes. Her senses coming back to her along with the grunt of a colt and the thud of something heavy hitting a wall.

As she glared down the stairs scared that her mare might be in danger. But with the world finally coming back to her she frowned in the realization that the guards had come for Berry, and Berry was not trained on how to deal with the guards in a manner that would not create more suspicion than the blood and evidence at her mother's house had created. The house had been tapped off before Colgate had even got a chance to clean up after her mare, and tho Berry was careful she did not clean up the blood she had left in the washroom, her own blood. It was enough to bring Berry in.

One of the guards that had filled the house had came to the bottom of the stairs looking up at her as if she was about to run. But she simply frowned down at him letting her head drop down a bit as he ran up to grab her. Much to her thanks he was not rough with her as she thought he would be, and he dragged her quickly to the carriage waiting for the both of them.

He pushed her inside and ran back to help with getting Berry from the house. But as Colgate looked over at the door watching Berry dragged from inside she frowned at the few blood trails running over Berry's face and chest. Berry was yelling the whole way to the carriage at which point she was thrown in alongside Colgate.

"Colgate why didn't you help me!?" She asked in surprise, kicking at the metal holding them inside the carriage.

"What did you do?" Colgate asked with a disappointed frown.

"What do you mean? Trying to escape!" She said as if it was a natural thing to do.

"No I mean what did you do to the guards" Colgate said with once again a disappointed and un approving look.

"Nothing" Berry muttered under her breath as the cart suddenly jerked forward and both mares lost their footing causing them to crash against the walls to hold themselves upright.

"What did you do?" Colgate asked again, this time angrily.

"I think I killed one of them..." Berry frowned. "Sorry"

Colgate was completely furious at Berry's ignorance. "Sorry? You killed one of them and you're sorry?"

"I know, but you didn't tell me what to do! I could only get one by the time they had me down"

"Could only get one?" Colgate asked with a growl behind her voice. "Could ONLY get one?" She repeated. "Berry the goal here is not to take out as many guards as possible! Dammit you're supposed to just listen to them! It's bad enough you went after your mother without first coming to me but now you've killed a guard. They have NOTHING on you for your mother, at least not enough to kill you but now guess what you've done! You're going to be dead by next week!" She growled angrily.

"R..Really?" Berry asked nervously. Backing off as if afraid of Colgate and what she was saying.

"Yes REALLY" Colgate replied angrily. "I can't get you out of this! There's no way to prove you didn't they have all those guards who say you did! Not to mention the blood on your face and whatever other evidence you left behind"

"So... What do I do?" She asked, confused and scared having never thought of all this before.

Colgate kicked against the metal in all her frustration, she should have focused less on her love life with Berry and more on training the mare. If nothing it would have kept her away from the death sentence but now Berry had given them no choice. Colgate was not strong enough in her magic to break them out of the guards quarters so as far as she could tell there was literally no way to save her mare from this.

They sat silently for a while, with Berry in the corner of the cart thinking about if she could have possibly left that colt alive. But nothing came to her, she had cut exactly where Colgate had told her not to. That meant either the colt was in serious condition or dead. But even as she thought of this the cart slammed to a stop and Berry was suddenly jerked from the cart.

Colgate followed soon after, she was helped out from the cart and brought into the holding cells far more kindly then Berry was. Colgate, knowing the worst may still be ahead for them was silent during this entire thing, but Berry was trying to apologize for the guards death as if it would somehow make her less accountable for her actions.

It was almost a week exactly when Colgate finally got word of Berry's trial, Mayor Mare had pushed ahead for it along with the support of the whole town and now Colgate knew the trial would be very short. She could only hope Berry would not drag them both down as she prepared for the idea that she may no longer have Berry with her.

But as the lawyer given to Berry disputed that it may have been a panic self defense, the evidence from her mother's house and the fight that went down in their own house equaled out any evidence that Berry may not have intentionally killed a guard. But the judge had a look of disapproval for Berry, the only consolation being in the sentence. "We release Colgate Minuette immediately with no charges, no evidence has amounted that she might be in connection with any of these cases" Colgate now need only wait for the judge to read out his decision on Berry's punishment. It was either jail for an unknown amount of years. Or death penalty a week from today. But with the look the judge gave her she knew she might seriously need to think about life without Berry.