No matter how well you hide a rotten body, someone is bound to smell it at the end of the day. Secrets are bound to be unveiled one day no matter how late it might have been. Hence, a good secret takes a long time to be unveiled. However, keeping a secret as carefully as possible sometimes makes it even easier to uncover.
In a matter of hiding oneself, the safest place is under one's enemy's nose. It is so dangerous that one's enemy would expect one to hide there. This is what Shanifa had done; no one could locate her for more than a year and a half. Although she had been found now, she didn't have any thought to change her method.
As she traversed through the bustling street of the capital of Cresundia, no one paid her any attention. She didn't bother hiding and moving discreetly. She had taken off her cloak and dressed like a normal civilian. She looked so ordinary that no one suspected her even though she was moving quite hurriedly.