"So?" Oriana scoffed. "She's nothing more than a lowly slave herself. If she weren't confined here, I'd have someone drag her to me by her hair. Soon enough, she'll be prostrate beneath my feet, where she truly belongs."
She held his hand in hers and gently pecked on it. Drayce didn't open his eyes but he knew it was the time to put her veil back. But before he could, Seren hugged him and buried her face in the crook of his neck. Drayce opened his eyes and hugged her back. She was there without her veil but he could not see her.
The Queen shook her head. "I am not aware of those details. At that time, I was a new mother who had just returned with her child from her parents home. I was mostly occupied with tending to young Lenard in my chamber. That night we all were shocked with the news of Queen's assassination. About Arlan?" Queens face painted with a sad expressions, "He was still a child who happened to witness his mother being assassinated."