"I don't have to tell you since you already know" she said. The maid looked flustered and kept scratching her nails nervously.
Silver looked at her and held both of her hands "Elgi, what are you so afraid of? This isn't the first time we're sneaking out after allow" she said. "Princess, the last time we went out did you forget what happened? Please let us just stay inside" she begged.
Silver remembered the last time they went out and she had been caught by the grand chief eunuch. All the other workers in the palace always showed fear and respect for the royal family but he was different.
Maybe it was the amount of years he spent in the palace but he had a way of putting off the royal family and the worst part was that her father never complained about anything he did.
They were both caught by a palace guard while trying to run and even when her father had not ordered any punishment for them, the grand chief eunuch was adamant. He ordered for Elgi to be given a beating right in front of her.
She was totally enraged but her father only sent medicine to her maid and the case was closed only her mother scolded him later on when she realized how much he had hurt Elgi.
She looked at Elgi and realized how selfish she was to ask her about sneaking out again.
This time she will just go out on her own. She sighed as if surrendering and said "Don't worry, I understand". Elgi face lit up at her words "really, are you not going to sneak out again?"
"Yes, don't worry. I will retire to my room now" she said and left the courtyard. When she was almost close to the princess' quarters she stopped as if suddenly remembering something.
"Ohh..." she gasped running her hands through her dress while Elgi looked at her a bit confused. "What is it?" she asked.
"I left my pouch in the courtyard" she said trying to sound worried. "Don't worry I'll go get it for you" said Elgi. She turned and walked back hurriedly.
Silver smiled satisfied and quickly went another way. She walked calmly because of the guards, everything would be over if she showed any sign to them that she was on the run.
There was no army in Nesha, but no one wanted to cross the paths of this palace guards. They were so powerful and you could never escape from them no matter how hard you try.
She continued until she reached the most underused garden in the palace. They were few guards and a lot of trees and plants that decorated the place.
She wondered why no one ever comes here, to her it was the most beautiful place. She hid behind a tree and picked up a stone after carefully scanning the area and threw it to the rows of trees opposed to her.
There were only two guards in the courtyard and they both went to check out the area. She took that chance and quickly went over to the small fence that led outside. She easily climbed her way out to freedom.
Little did she know that she just got herself into the palace of trouble.
Anelle and Velox went to meet Zenon after three days. He was already seated waiting for them when they entered.
"Seeing the way you are relaxed, it seems like you already got information on what we talked about the last time" said Velox.
"Yes, actually I did check out the background of those people and found out about something that happened around twenty years ago involving them" he paused for a while and brought out a scroll from one of the drawers.
"I found this in one of the victim's place, it was hidden very well in a secret basement and it contains hardcore secret" he stopped to see their reaction.
"What is inside?" asked Anelle.
"It was an agreement signed by great masters. The agreement was actually signed to dispose an immortal" he said.
Anelle and Velox looked at each other in fear, this was more terrific than they had thought. Dispose an immortal? How was that even possible? Did they fail? Is that why the immortal is killing them to avenge himself?
They both had different questions flooding through their minds but they managed to compose their selves. They had to find out everything that is related to this case.
"How can they do that?" asked Velox.
"I was also suprised immortals can't die but........ they can perish and cease to exist. Take a look at this" he said giving them the scroll. Anelle collected it and placed it on the table at their front. She opened it and they both looked at it.
There were a lot of names of powerful people. She could easily identify the names of some of them that went missing around seven years ago. So they had been involved in this.
I'm sure you ladies can recognize at least seventy-five percent of the names written here" he said. Velox sighed softly still reading the plan outlined before talking
"He must have been bad, for this respected people to even have the thought of killing.... disposing him".