I'm so proud of her, I'm so proud of them, and man did they make the smartest decision in bringing in the people that are usually forgotten: the underclass, the servant who are all the invisible force behind the nobility. To make this a matter of national (dis)honour, to use their rhetoric against them, to have Ebony pose that question - beautiful. Iss this trial unrealistic? Yes. But it does what it is supposed to do as a mechanism of the story, and it does it so wondrously while redeeming Ebony in the eyes of the public and perhaps even us as readers who may have also been uncertain in our belief of her innocence at the beginning. Her suffering, her desire to live, and her trauma rendered so deep into her that she at some point wanted to die while believing she was guilty, all for it to finally come to the point where she does believe in herself again; they're all such human elements and such strength of character. I'm incoherent at this point, I just love this arc and chapters to bits.