"My lady... What... I only," Eva could not compose her sentence.
"I have to see the emperor, I have to tell him who hurt my child," Ellen said. Eva looked at her mistress, this was the first time Ellen was taken the initiative to see the emperor.
Eva was trying to process everything that happen in her head. Although she did not really pay attention when she fed the baby the herb that will stop his heartbeat from being noticed for a few hours, there was a chance that the queen did not see her, or even if she did, the queen trusted her too much to suspect that she will harm her baby.
Then does it mean that the midwife gave something to the child, if that was the case, is the child really safe? Eva wondered. The child had been sleeping most of her journey the previous night she thought that it was heaven that favored her. After all the journey would have been more difficult if she had to stop a few times to take care of the baby.
