FUNCTION: Silence as discipline.
OVERVIEW
Layla is interrogated but not tortured. Any explanation she gives would sound manipulative or delusional. She chooses silence as strategy.
KEY EVENTS
- Interrogations without cruelty.
- Layla refuses to explain what cannot be believed.
- Balogun shapes suspicion through reasonable doubt.
- Enemy intelligence mirrors internal debate timing.
END STATE
Execution delayed, not cancelled. The kingdom survives by restraint alone.