"Your Highness, Assistant Sir ordered us to look in the surrounding areas and keep our eyes and ears open." The soldier affirmed.
While the soldier believed that he was relaying that they had done their best and followed the orders, he would not have known that he had unavoidable managed to implicate the assistant.
As the King ordered," Search inside the grounds and do not leave any corner or room of this castle or the grounds. Every room, every basement, every servant quarter, am I clear?"
As the soldiers scattered everywhere, King Aulus thought back to the time when Jeannie had escaped previously. Even then she had been able to escape the Isle of Argent and he had been unable to stop her. After that, every attempt that he had made to get her here had been ruined by that Delaney Cooper or Jeannie herself.
