Meanwhile, at Havilla, the atmosphere was thick and tense. The streets were empty and all the guards were in high alert mode. Inside the castle, everyone who knows about what was happening and a few elite guards that had been briefed, gathered in the hall as they waited for news.
They had all been awake through the night and it was already morning, still, no message had come from anyone or any place.
Axel, who was tapping his feet on the ground, had his eyes closed and his head was thrown back on the headrest of the chair he was seated on. He knew Kora said that the venom will show up today, but he had silently been hoping that she would show up a little earlier — maybe before dawn — but nothing like that happened.
He was becoming impatient, and to make it worse, he didn't know where she would first appear. If only he knew, he would have gone there to wait for her, so he would be the first person to see her when she exits the grave.
