Al Tells the Truth

The blizzard continued for another three days. In that time I stayed out of Mariela's way and she never called for me so I assumed she was still processing what had happened and was trying to figure out what to do alongside her husband.

With no one able to enter or exit the palace due to the snow I wasn't even expected to have tea with anyone since neither the queen nor Rosenia were interested in me when not keeping up appearances in front of other nobility. Al and I were left entirely to our own devices, which got very, very boring.

We built about fifty card houses, played more than a dozen rounds of every game I had taught him, read books until our eyes glazed over, and went to the kitchens for treats twice.

I really wanted to talk to Marcy about what she knew regarding the palace's inner network but I would need to do that when no one else was around. There had to be a way to meet her alone outside of the kitchen.