C66 Ja Lia, stabbed to death?

"Please ask him again, he sure doesn't know what he is doing."

Ja's voice broke into confetti as tears swelled in his throat. He would be so glad if he was woken up and told that all was just a dream. Because that was all it seemed to him. He couldn't make a sane meaning out of it.

He was tied to a pillar outside the palace. Two warriors were standing before him