On the fourth day, after the Knights of the Ebon Blade left, a strange atmosphere filled the town.
It seemed that no one had issued an order for a news embargo. Perhaps someone was stirring the pot as rumors quickly spread. The mayor's wife gossiped about what she heard at the ball. The maidservants at the ball told the cooks and servants bits of what they had heard. The cooks and servants brought the news out and spread it throughout the town.
People may have been afraid to discuss it in the open, but that did not prevent them from blabbing and exchanging information in private. When the buzz spread far and wide, it inevitably affected everyone's daily life.
