An expected result

When the reports from the Poppin Kingdom came, none of us were surprised by them.

After all, the plan was perfect.

There was absolutely nothing that could go wrong.

Well, it wasn't that there was absolutely nothing that could go wrong, it was just that the chances of those things happening were so slim that it was almost impossible for them to actually happen.

But there was a price to pay for doing these things in the first place.

Because the methods that we used would draw the attention of certain people.

"How long do you think it'll be before they come knocking on our doors?"

"Who do you mean?" I asked the prime minister after he asked me this question.

The three of us in the study all revealed smiles after I said this.

That was because we all knew who I was referring to.