Ottilia remembered the words the Queen had told her before she left that day.
The words of the Witch Queen echoed loud in her head. Finally she was given permission to find her and she's not going to let it go to waste. But first she had to figure out how to go along her quest.
From how things appeared, The Crown Prince and his men didn't know about her whereabouts or any clue of where she might be.
She remembered the news Glinda had brought to her that evening; her presence had vanished completely—as though she's Dead.
But that might not be the case, the tragedy that was about to strike had not struck yet so the possibility of her being dead was…a nay.
Ottilia racked her brain to come up with any possible explanations why her presence had disappeared. Her hand dipped into her belt and presented the stone to her sight. It still appeared as dead as before, there was no life particle in it at all, not even a little.