"Poor girl got drunk and fell. What a terrible way to go but at least she escaped being punished for stealing."
"Watch your words around the dead," Mark warned the guard who had no regard for where he stood. "You are to keep anyone from keeping this way, not speak of how you think she died."
Mark shook his head as some of the guards were a headache and made him wish he had gone home instead of being in the palace so late. He came to see what kind of accident happened in the palace but was not expecting this.
"The king is here."
Mark stood up to greet Tobias. "King Tobias."
"Mark, it's a little late for you to be here unless you have been staying in the palace. I would like for it to be explained why my wife's maid is lying dead here. Why?" Tobias questioned, not wanting to believe it though the familiar face was there.
