How to Enter the Forbidden Garden?

Frustrated, the Prince Regent kicked the floor,

"Damn it!" Lex supposed the Prince could easily escape punishment, but ... what about the men of the castle guard? Has there ever been a situation like this before?

"If the Prince needs anything, I will go in his place!" said the same soldier as before. Balbo also offered to do it, and even the girl Lex had never seen, kneeling at his feet.

But Lex had no idea what could happen to these people when he touched the pomegranate tree.

Lex read and reread the mosaic several times, to make sure what was written. It would have been better to have done this without witnesses, but there was no time to regret it.

"Is it written there, 'stepping'?"