For Arkan and his companions, everything was proceeding according to the plan of quarreling with them to learn the skills of each one of them and their way of defense and their way of attack then overdoing the jesting until the judge intervenes and they begin seriousness.
All this is Arkan's skills in planning...
Laith stood up: «We apologize Your Honor the judge. I promise you that from our side the session will be respectful».
Then he continued and said: «O colleague Abraham, what exactly is the reason for your choice of Mater?»
Abraham replied with respect: «The great-grandfather of the family that Mater tried to assassinate was a friend of my grandfather... he was always visiting us and giving me sugar... I used to rejoice in this as a small child».
Tears began to form clearly in Abraham's eyes who continued: «After that after my grandfather's death and my entering the school of magic the other grandfather was paying half the expenses for me and inviting me to a special dinner every month and advising me to avoid problems and focus on learning and gathering knowledge.
I did not expect that he would die one day like my grandfather died to the point that I could not even attend the funeral because I remained shocked crying in my room.
The family did not know me, but I was always watching them and making sure of their safety, the day I heard about the collapse of the palace was a terrifying day, I thought they had died but it turned out they had not moved yet so I rejoiced greatly».
Of course and with all certainty Abraham was shitting nonsense.
His narration was free of gaps that could be exploited in case the intended family was summoned as witnesses, for he said that two persons had already died between them friendship, and added that he used to meet with the grandfather of that family privately and not publicly, add to that he justified his absence from the funeral.
Laith smiled: «So O Abraham, what is the goal of kidnapping Mater? Is it revenge?»
Abraham replied: «If the judge permits this is my turn to ask».
The judge permitted that.
«O Laith, if your cause is just and you are confident of that... why did you gather all these supporters, isn't justice always victorious and does not need a huge amount of influence and big personalities?»
Laith answered: «It is good to make the people realize that some officials in the city are interested in just causes, you can consider this the true face of authority in Babylon».
«Now answer my second question» Laith ended his speech with that.
«Very well, the goal is not revenge but to teach him a lesson so that no builder or any other profession owner cheats in his work».
(The author: While I write I feel dizzy from the intensity of their hypocrisy)
Abraham and Laith sat down.
After that Arkan and Abdullah both stood up.
Abdullah was eloquent-tongued, Arkan needed to concentrate.
The judge pointed to Abdullah who began saying: «Arkan, everyone knows that you are facing financial problems, isn't it abstractly clear that you are trying to bring us down to take a share during and after that?»
Arkan fell silent for a moment then said sarcastically: «Abdullah, the poorest people are their thieves».
Arkan posed his question: «Abdullah, the jinn creatures that you inherited from your father, did you use them during the process of kidnapping Mater?»
Abdullah's eyes opened wide and Clara closed her eyes in a strange way... as for Abraham he frowned intensely.
From the other side Laith and Chodo and Salim were surprised under the cover of joy.
All this because using jinn in matters like kidnapping was forbidden and its punishment was execution.
Hisham whispered to his comrades words that made the matter worse: «O comrades, the jinn and Mater passed by the slaves' café, and a large percentage indicates that they saw them».
Abdullah said: «Tsk, that means there are witnesses».
Arkan did not know that Abdullah had actually used the jinn, that was merely a guess from him.
After studying the members of the gang before and during the session he realized there was a gap.
And it is Hisham... Hisham's whisper specifically was what Arkan was waiting for, as soon as he saw the lips of the latter moving he realized he was right, he realized that Abdullah had used his own jinn in the kidnapping of Mater.
The judge noticed this and ended the session: «The winners in the first session of case one thousand six hundred and thirty-three for the secondary Babylonian court are the right side».