Once the lady-in-waiting Emilia had revealed that the woman Commander Lothian brought with him to the castle was Henry's mother, word spread like wildfire.
At each turn, King Alfred would seek answers to the questions rising about Henry's background, coming up with nothing new. Yet each bit of information seemed to lead in the same direction, and he knew he had to get his hands on Henry's mother in order to see for himself whether or not the truth of Henry could be discovered.
There had been Royal Knights in charge of monitoring the peasant village, causing those who lived in the dilapidated houses lining the unkempt streets a lot of discomfort. However, seeing that it was spring and summer when the knights started to appear, the peasants simply had to continue with their usual work and ignore the men hawking over them. It was difficult knowing full well that they thought they were better than them because of the lives they were born into.
