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How was he so quick to figure it out? He already knew by our reactions. 

"Who is it?" He used the voice that demanded an answer. "The person so important that you had to bring their trouble here to our kingdom?"

"It's me, your highness," my mother steps in. "I was injured."

"You… alone were injured. That led every single one of you to arrive here."

"It was urgent your-"

"Silence."

The prince's voice was a deadly type of soft.

"And what would have happened if you did not return to this place?" He asks mother. She doesn't seem fazed in the slightest, nor taken aback. She returns the harsh, sharp look in her eyes.