How am I going to tell the king the bad news?  How am I supposed to say to him that someone has gone

against his wishes and buried Polyneices?  Why did I have to throw the dice and lose.  I have always been told

not to be the bearer of bad news.  As I walk into the palace i'm praying for my life.  I hope the king won't think

that it was I who buried Polyneices.  Why would someone in their right mind go against the king's wishes

knowing that they would be killed.  As I approach the palace doors I stand by the door take deep breaths and

pray to the gods to have mercy on me.  After taking a couple of deep breaths, I walk into the palace and am face

to face with the king.  My knees are trembling, and my voice is cracking.  I start telling the king how scared I was

at first before I came into the palace but he did not care about how I was feeling, he just wanted to know what

had happened.  When I told him that someone had buried Polyneices and that the other guards and I had not

seen who had committed this crime, he went into a jealous rage.  I tried to keep talking to the king and he just

told me that my voice distressed him.  I got smart with him and told him that maybe it was his conscience that

was distressing him.  Right then and there my conscience spoke to me and told me now you're dead.  But yet

the king ignored me and told me to go find the person who had done this and just bring them forth.  I waked

away and went off to look for the traitor who had gone against the king.  I was relieved that I had not lost my life

and thanked the gods for sparing me my life.  I was off to get the rest of the guards and look for the person who

had done this.