Hendrickson sat there silently for a moment as slight panic ran through him. He opened his lips to begin speaking. "I-I spent it on the work of course, your highness, I w-would never-"
"Go into the noble's civilization to spend all the money right?" Adia swooped in, "definitely wouldn't waste the money on expensive clothing for your family or gambling for bits of jewelry with the nobles, right?"
Hendrickson froze, his head turning to Adia with a scowl on his face "Your highness, she is accusing me of such filthy actions for me to be disgraced in you-"
"Do you think this is the first day in which Adia has been at my side? Or rather the first time she has been given work from me?" Boris asked, cutting into Hendrickson's words. He turned to look at the rest of the council members at the table and smiled. "I'm not sure you all remember as this has been such a tumultuous year, but I made a trip into the outer wall's central city and I visited someone."
