" Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.”

Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and I spent three days in a condemned cell. I can’t recommend the experience.”

“And—did you say a smuggler?”

“That was what the death sentences were for. "

― K.J. Charles , The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)