"Captain Yehval, I charged you with keeping them calm and you failed me, forcing me to reveal my presence." Kamila was flabbergasted realizing that the Queen had been watching and listening to them the entire time.
Suddenly Lith's paranoia sounded reasonable.
"I relieve you from your duty. Prepare them for what is about to come and embarrass me no further."
Everyone turned toward Kamila, looking at her with steel gazes as if there was a traitor among them. Even Zinya didn't say a word to defend her.
"I couldn't disobey a direct order from the Queen, just as there wasn't anything I could say to ease your worries." Kamila said to both the Queen and the Verhens.
Sylpha's gaze softened, realizing she had tasked the Captain with an impossible mission. If it was her son they were talking about, the Commander and his men would be all over the place, reduced to small bits.
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