Chapter 69: meeting
Vacuse went to his room after he finished giving orders. He wanted to wash the blood and dirt off him. On his way over, members of the Dragon Guards who were still whole accompanied him, as well as those from the New Dawn.
Vacuse didn’t really mind or tell them anything. He let them do what they wanted. It seemed they were all seeing him in a different light now.
"What a shitty night," Vacuse muttered as he washed himself in the large tub in his room. The water was prepared to a warm temperature by the servants.
He sat up in the already muddy water, then got out to move to another tub, this one clean and ready to complete his washing.
He soaked his head in water and rubbed his face before he sighed. "Time to do some thinking. There are a lot of people involved in tonight’s execution. First is the Vassals faction, and apparently they brought the intruders with them, but then betrayed the Vassals by trying to kill all Vorrakyn.
"Then, there’s someone out there who wants the Vorrakyn dead. I mean, everyone wants us dead, but someone actually acted on it." Vacuse frowned. Things weren’t making as much sense as he would have hoped.
"Let’s draw it back. The Vassals wanted to kill me and Drenvar and install Fenris Vorrakyn. But are the Vassals actually working for Fenris, or did they just set him up as the figurehead to use?
"But the intruders that the Vassals employed betrayed them by killing Fenris, and then tried to kill the Vorrakyn and Vassals as well. That means the real masterminds are the intruders. They just used the Vassals to gain leverage into the Dragon Castle.
"But who infiltrated all the Dragon Guards, the normal guards, the New Dawn, and a lot that I don’t even know for now? This is not as simple as it seems," Vacuse muttered to himself.
The water in the pool was cooling quickly. "And they tried to kill Duke Frexon, which removed him from the list. Killing the Duke would have meant war between us."