14 letters, response to pain, first five letters are “A”.
Transcripts
This is Jim, your Majesty. He’s the Royal Victim.
Your Majesty.
Royal… Victim?
Oh yes. You can’t have torture without a victim, your Majesty.
But… shouldn’t that be… I thought the point was to torture an enemy?
Er… I don’t think the kingdom really has any enemies anymore. Not since-
Everybody died. Yes, yes.
So… how do you actually go about this… this…
Torturing? Well, these days it’s mostly crossword puzzles.
What?
Yes. I really find them very frustrating.
And all that screaming I heard earlier?
Oh, sorry your Majesty. That was 18 across.
It was a real puzzler.