The Betrayers’ Punishment

Similarly, while the major perpetrators were being tortured and killed, the Alteran guards had also rounded up several normal citizens in the interior territory. 

"I'm not a guard! Why am I getting punished?" One yelled as he was dragged along the alleys. He looked around and saw a few others were being pulled as well. 

He paled when he recognized most of them, and a deep foreboding entered his gut. 

He kept his mouth shut, hoping he was wrong, but he did know annoying these guards now would only strengthen their case. 

The others though were not so mild. In particular, there were those who were rich or well-off in Terran and enjoyed a decent life here by pandering to Fargo. They had been extremely used to being arrogant, and they wanted to kick the faces of everyone looking down on them now! 

"YOU BAST—"

He was kicked down before he could complete the sentence, and he was pulled back up, no longer having the energy to be so noisy.