62 Royal Court

An entire night passed by, but Seren didn't come out of the tower. King Armen continued to kneel in the rain at the same place outside the tower's main entrance like a sinner was asking for forgiveness. Beside him, Lord Eudes had done his best to make the King as comfortable as possible and had ordered the knights to fetch their king a thick hooded cloak, as he continued to accompany him silently till morning.

Outside the Third Princess's residence, the chaos had subsided, yet a heavy tension enveloped the people and the entire palace. Luckily, the rain had stopped some time before dawn; therefore, the people doing labor inside the palace had been spared from working under the rain. 

Despite that, the servants running around to clean the mess continued to curse the witch in their minds, while the royals and the nobles who had heard the news were both filled with equal fear and malice towards the youngest daughter of the royal family.