Ushka gritted her teeth and held onto her bruised cheek. This was the third time someone trampled her as if she was nothing. However, she couldn't fight against the de-facto queen in legal standing. Neither will the sweet Sierra take her side.
She could only beg the king for his iron fist against the other women. "Your Majesty, are you going to ask us to let the outer court in?"
"It may be too late for that." Fenris got up from his chair in the wide hall that served as the bunker. "The outer court has already—"
Drip. Scream! Fenris's ears were assaulted by the screams of the inner court when his nose uncontrollably bled then and there. Sierra and Rosamund cleared his face and forced him to sit down, and the inner court loosely surrounded him. They started asking questions about his health, but their mixing voices made it impossible for Fenris to understand them.
