"Kate, don't let Lady Luna realize this before I get back," Bryant warned her for the second time.
"Is Nemo alive?" Kate was like a volcano and about to explode. How could she bear this, why would they be kidnapped?
"He is, I didn't see his body among the others my men brought."
Bryant said nothing more and galloped out of the courtyard with his men, the king asked him to find where they were and he would interfere personally.
Inside the King's residence, Master Gaven appeared toward him.
"I am at your disposal, your highness."
"Find Narayan for me. You know how dear she is to me." The faerie nodded and vanished to fulfill his wish.
A moment later, the Queen entered and he turned back to her, his expression stern.
"Was it you?"
Queen Rose raised an eyebrow, last night he was treating her well and today because of that wench he was sharpening the blade for her.
"What was me?"
He closed his eyes, were they trying him?
"You gave the case to Elenore, why?"
"Because Lady Monaghan persisted too much and I thought only Elenore is capable of working on this case. Someone snatched money from the council budget, and it can be the accountants."
"I doubt if they are daring to do that. You've heard that Elenore's guards were killed and Lady Narayan was with her, I am not forgiving this."
Queen Rose clenched her fist, she wasn't feisty today and this one was tough to handle.
"Are they kidnapped?"
"We don't know! I want you to go to Livia and talk to her."
"She is not going to do this stupidity."
He shook his head, his wife had too much hope for their daughter.
"Just talk to her, you can leave now."
As the Queen left, The King walked out, drawing his path to the left tower, but Kate Foley was already outside.
"Lady Foley, I have a wish for you."
He darted a glare to his guards and they kept the pace back.
"I've heard of it, your majesty. I am curious what they had found related to the case that caused this attack."
"Cp Weeds, master Gaven told me that they went after the issue. A physician that they talked to came here and told us. Seemed he was the first person who found the bodies."
Kate jolted, hearing it! They should have told her but poorly not many people knew what she was in the past.
"Do you know about it?"
"I do, your majesty." She muttered.
"Speak!"
His tone was loud.
"When we were assassins, we used to have those potions made of the extract of the weed to hype our strength."
The King closed his eyes, as he reckoned Livia was behind it.
"Can you do something for me?"
She nodded quickly.
"Follow Princess Livia silently."
The King was aware of her deep-rooted grudge toward that woman. Livia wickedly attempted to kill her once and they lost Lucas James, he thought.
"Rest assured your highness."
She bowed and dashed to the left tower, inside the room she used to stay in with Helena. She changed her clothes and wore a black uniform.
"Glad that I didn't burn them." Wearing her weapons, she used the secret way that Luna taught her, it was going to the cold Mountain, turning the left power could send her where the princess residence was.
Bryant arrived where the raiders attacked the cart, he looked at the blood drops that iced on the snow. He knelt and picked Nemo's sword, the boy was wounded and those drops trickled from him.
"Captain, they rode to the forest."
Bryant stood up and looked at the sky, dark was a good point for them to be concealed.
"We will go after them."
If they wanted to kill them, they would have done it here but as it appeared to be, they wanted something against this.
Mounting up the horses they rode to the road, then arrived at turning. Left side or the right side?
"Shit!" Bryant now was angry, the snow and wind left no print to track them.
"Should we go to the right? This one goes to the mountain but the right one goes to a village."
Bryant nodded, "we will go to the right one."
Yanking the flanks they veered to the right side.
~
The heels were clicking on the cobbled floor, Nemo woke up with a fetal pain on his head, the scent of blood was steering in his nose. Every sound that was resonating in his ears sounded madly loud.
"Lady Black... Lady Narayan?"
He tried to move but all he could see was dark and taste the chains that embraced him.
"I am here, Nemo!"
It was Lady Narayan then where was Elenore?
"Where is Lady Elenore?"
"They took her away."
Nemo cursed, Luna was right, her senses were strong, and could feel the menace close to them.
"Is there anyone?"
"Stop yelling, they don't care, if I take your tongue out."
Nemo did not doubt that they would do that, swallowing down, his mouth was just a dry bone.
"What do you want?"
"Hm, you are noisy!"
Was he dozing? The man was replying lazily. What was the sound of the woman's heel? Lady Elenore was wearing flat boots so the sound wasn't coming from her shoes.
"Calm down, Captain!" Lady Narayan was trying to kill her own terror precisely.
The man chuckled, seemed he was mocking his title.
"Lady Narayan, do you know who are they?"
"A bunch of assassins who use a potion to hype their killing stamina..."
Now he was even more confused, was it related to the case they were working on?
Inside another room, a man removed the cloth around Elenore's eyes from behind. She was distressed, she had never experienced being caught like this. Her eyes fell on the vast cloaked person in front of her.
"Who are you?" She shouted and struggled but she was cuffed by chains.
The stranger turned and she jolted!
"Maxima!" She uttered!
"Why are you doing this?"
"She had warned you once but you didn't take it seriously, if you speak, she will kill you and my daughter included. I have to do this."
Maxima was desperate.
"Where is she?"
"She sent me here because the king has eyes on her."