The next morning Rokhshan was having breakfast served in the royal room.
She took her breakfast to a comfortable place and shared some fruit with her cat Nebuchadnezzar.
The next moment the cat started shaking all over her body while trying to vomit. And a few seconds later she died. Rokshan cried out in anger and fear and called the guards.
"Somebody just tried to poison me. I want you to find the girl who served me and the one who gave her the poison. Now!"
It did not take the guards long to find the girl. She was about to flee when she was captured. The girl was hysterical and cried that she was innocent. The guards told her that all they needed was a name, and then she would be free.
So the girl gave the guards a name. But the freedom they had in mind was not the freedom the poor girl had hoped for. The guards strangled her and dumped her in the prison's cesspool.
Ibrahim ibn Arabi, head of the مسافران سایه or Mosafran Sayeh, reported back to Rokhshan. In a soft voice he whispered to her: "It was Marshal Lesire, my lady. He gave the order." "And the girl?" "She has been taken care of."
Eventually Lesire was brought before Rokhshan: "Why Lesire? You wanted me dead? Is that what he would have wanted? I'm trying not to hate anybody with all that happened, but you and your colleagues despise me. Now bear the consequences of your act. This afternoon you will be executed." "Take him away!"
And effectively, that afternoon Lesire was executed, not even by his equals but by lower ranking officers. He refused to be blindfolded and his last words were "Long Live Neo, Long Live the army!" His body was taken to the desert and left there for the predators.