"If what you say is true... then why are you here? You said your mother forbade you from entering the castle." Aurnia retorted with a straight face.
To her annoyance, the girl just smirked at her before she opened her lips and said, "My mother died last week." She announced it all of a sudden with an expression devoid of emotions.
They were all taken aback by the girl's answer. Something shifted in the air around the private room where they held the confidential interrogation with this girl who suddenly claimed she was the king's daughter.
"Weren't you disrespecting your mother's memory by going against her words?" Queen Ysmena questioned her in a dubious tone, planning to trap the girl into admitting that she was lying.
