'Should I interact with her?' Damien thought as he made his way to his brother's office.
He could see his father and consult but given the situation the Duke is in, it's better to see Daeron rather than the recovering one.
He was contemplating whether to see Calen's girlfriend, whom he had imprisoned and enslaved in a dungeon on a mountain.
He could free her, tell her she was being saved by him, not the other way around.
That can possibly save him but the thing is, the moment he interacts with anything remote to her, that plot is going to activate.
It was like this from the beginning, the meeting with Maelys, Celeste, and Calen was unplanned but that arc had already happened in the books, though seldom written about it.
These arcs, which was not mentioned in the novel but can be triggered by various factors are called 'hidden arc.' That is what he decided to call them.
