Akia maintained a neutral look on her face and she gave Amelia the same answer that she had given her before. She was like a cassette player that was playing one line of the same song.
"Very well." Amelia stood up and she left the hall.
As soon as she entered her carriage, she told her right hand woman, a knight named Hilbert. "Send someone to Nemoris secretly and look for anyone named Mirena and...." She paused and sighed. What it did matter anyway, her return would make no difference. "Never mind."
Amelia decided to let go of the secret which she had been told by her mother, a former lady in waiting of the dead empress.
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While Roland and Sigrid were having dinner with Elarin and duke Thorin on the balcony of the royal dining room, he shared with them how his day had gone. He had just finished telling them all about his new fortification plans for the walls in Nemoris when Sigrid decided to share something she had heard from her system.