I entered the room where the others were assigned. I was the only one to get a separate room.
"So? How was your romantic getaway? Anything you wanna talk about?" Mansi bounced onto the edge of her bed and leaned towards me.
"Nothing much." I shrugged.
"There must be something! A fatal wound from his past battles. A weakness of some sort. A lover?" Maven asked.
I was reluctant to say it, but…"There was something, I suppose. It might have been a lover.."
"That's something! Who are they? The empress? They don't seem that close, but perhaps it's behind the curtains kind of thing." Karmon said
I shook my head. "He said he doesn't know where they are. He didn't tell me much about them."
"He didn't mention a name? Nothing?"
I thought about our conversation. "He did say that I reminded him of them."
"Eek… Sorry, dude." Karmon cringed and patted me on the back.
"For what?" I asked
