It felt like a terrible sense of déjà vu.
Adela, with no spare moment to waste, stood in front of two guards stationed outside the von Conradie manor. The hired commoners, dressed in armor and armed with guns, wore a look of shame as they denied the Archduke's daughter entry and explained that their Master was not present.
Coincidentally, her arrival coincided with the departure of several physicians leaving the manor, their silent bows directed towards her. This only added to her growing unease—a feeling that something was amiss, something she needed to uncover before the soiree.
Mounted on her mare, she confidently rode to the next logical destination—Egon's house—accompanied by three knights who kept a respectful distance. Tying her mare to the nearest tree near the trio of houses by the eastern entrance of Lanark Forest, she gazed up at the door of the house she had visited just the day before. However, this time, she found herself needing to knock.
