"Do you happen to see their faces young man?" My husband asked.
"No, Your Grace."
After that they both started grilling him with questions, questions that I feel is unnecessary. Why is this starting to make me angry?
"Your Highness and Your Grace. I believe he has told you everything he has heard. So there's no need to keep asking more questions to this young child." I interrupted.
My husband once again seems to be in a bad mood. But I don't care I have to protect my employee afterall.
"Duchess it seems as though you and this child are very close." His highness said.
"Indeed we are Your Highness. He is my one and only employee."
My husband seems confused, "What?" He asked.
"Your Grace, the bar is mine. I have an interest in tasting new alcoholic drinks from around the world and so I started that bar all on my own. And Jared here is the manager as well as the bartender so it is within my right to protect my employee when he's being questioned as if he's committed a crime."
"Duchess you seem to have misunderstood. I apologise if we've made him uncomfortable. As you know our situation right now we were too carried away. Please forgive us." His Highness sincerely apologize. This was a first i didn't know he was such a good person unlike someone next to him who is looking as if they wanna kill me.
"No it's quite alright Your Highness." I thought everything was over until Jared softly voices out while still trembling, "Um... Your Highness, Your Grace and My Lady. I don't know if this might help but... I suddenly remembered something..."
All of us were waiting for him to speak up as he continued, "... while they pay for their food i happened to see a mark on one of the guy's hand. It looked like a snake coiling around a sword. That's all I remember."
A snake with a sword. It was obvious. Although Jared doesn't know that symbol that wasn't the case for us. It was from the largest Assassination Guild in this region. The Blood Fengs, just like it seems, the guild has numbers of assasins under it. They're an independent guild and so anyone with money can make a deal with them. It is said that it doesn't matter if an assassin dies as long as you get the job done. They don't care who their target is whether they be a king or a person from the slum they're known for getting the job done. Till now no one has ever seen any of the assasins faces. They roam around everywhere just like normal people and you never know who their target is until they are killed.
Their way of killing ranges from brutal murder to using poison. Although I have never seen one but it is said that they would leave their symbol on the target's forehead as a sign to distinct themselves as if saying this was the work of The Blood Fangs. The fact that Jared saw one of their hands was a major lead.
This gave us new information that the Alliance has made a deal with the Guild. As very little is known about this group it would be difficult to initiate an investigation. Added to that is the traitor among the nobles.
"Thank you young man. If anything else comes up i hope you will tell us." His highness said.
We let Jared go as the sun was setting and i, well I had to stay back with them to discuss something. Seriously I didn't wanna get involved but I told them the bar was mine so they weren't gonna let me be.
As I entered back my husband was still as cold as ever. Your gonna strain your eyes if you look at me like that. His Highness still kept his smile as if he's completely oblivious to the atmosphere. Sigh I wish I could get a divorce soon.