The tension heightened in that place as no one knew who Briceus would call out next. The fact that those five men got called out on arrest, remained too shocking a revelation for everyone to come to terms with, overall.
Every man held firm his reservations.
Duke Wauter, on the recent development, was very quick to calculate that Briceus must obviously know a lot about the planned assault on his life, even more so about the ones involved in cooking up the plot as his recent actions were portraying him to be. But how come?!
