PROSE MODE.
"Have you seen King Ethan?".
Derek had sent a servant earlier to bring him back to the banquet table earlier, but now the banquet was over.
"He'd left halfway to go find Leah, I sent guards after them, they'll meet up with us at the palace."
Tiana beckoned on him not to worry about their safety.
At the palace, Derek ensconced himself in the throne room alongside Tiana.
A chamberlain darted into the room, breathing heavily. He'd brought bad news from the messenger at the gate of the palace. Landing on his knees at their footstool.
"Your majesties, there's a plague!"
The words escaped from his lips, hitting the ears of the two monarchs like a physical sting.
"Speak more on this."
"The pruning shears in the fields took the form of serpents killing and injuring many, leviathans trooped into people's homes from the streams, poisoning them with lesions and consuming their livestock."
