The room was devoid of his presence here. I could feel him in every inch of the room. It was his and it felt like it. After the small conversation, it took me a lot of strength to get up and out of the room.
The execution was meant to be carried out at dawn which by the looks of the sky, was going to come sooner than I would have liked. Something made it fairly certain that I was going to witness it.
I did try to talk to his aunt, but I received the same answer from her as well.
There was nothing I could do that would change the mind of anyone. In fact, she went as far as to say that 'I had already sacrificed what I had and I no longer had anything left'.
"Would you like to eat something?" Anna asked. "It is equivalent to noon. Shall I call for lunch?"
"Do they not have lunch together?"
"They do." She answered, "but at the moment they are busy with the preparations of the execution and the upcoming marriage of the king."
