Verinia couldn't have cared less about the thoughts of others. She excused herself from the throne room with Halen before Su'ira Velnue could even make his way toward them.
The Chamberlain was left with all his words frothed up in his mouth, and he couldn't do anything but swallow them pitifully.
Nobody noticed the dejected look on his face as he looked after the sovereign siblings like a kicked puppy.
Said siblings met up with Eva, who was coming from a side hall with a box in her hands. The box was dark lacquered and carved with intricate vines.
"Your Sovereign Highness, I have it." Eva presented the box as if it were a rare treasure, and her movements were especially careful.
Verinia barely glanced at it before confirming that the box was the correct one.
She brought her brother and her handmaid down to the palace dungeons to interrogate the new prisoners.
