Once Loren and Elena had run out to discover what was happening with the bells ringing, the hooded figure unknown to them had been watching and waiting.
Amidst everyone running around, he waited until they were all gone.
When the hooded figure was certain no one was present, he snuck into Loren's quarters.
The hooded figure very quietly closed the door and examined the room.
Right on the large potion-making and medicine table was the body of a dead woman.
The hooded figure had not been the one to send the desert assassin and could not afford to be caught.
Desert assassins were rare, but if this one had done the job that she had been assigned to, none of this would have happened.
The hooded figure looked over the opened body and saw that they had examined literally almost everything and would soon discover where the assassin had been sent.