Flashback: You win

Nicholas and his men were currently stationed in the woods a few meters behind the palace walls. This forest was part of the palace lands but had been separated by a wall.

He had been putting in measures to infiltrate the palace, but it seemed David the coward was prepared. 

The palace was under heavy surveillance and seemed impenetrable. It's been a month already. A whole month had passed, and he hadn't seen Luciana and his son. 

He could barely sleep these past few days with Luciana's voice and her face full of pain calling out to him. He had been studying the pattern of how the guards switched in performing their duties, but he realized the pattern was inconsistent. 

It seemed it would be best to send someone inside the palace to check on the situation, but who could he send? 

Lost in thought, he saw James and Luciana's maid, Dora, bickering over something again.