Chapter 112: Did You see a jar?
"Is there anything you remember about the masked auction?"
"I don’t know if it will be ’elpful," Rose replied.
She wasn’t sure what the purpose of the crown prince’s question was, but it seemed more like he was trying to gather information than actually find out what had happened to her.
Caius tapped a finger on the armrest as he realized what seemed odd. She still addressed him incorrectly, something he had no plans to correct but her dialect wasn’t as prominent as before. It wasn’t possible that it had just changed... or was it that he hadn’t noticed?
He didn’t speak to her often. The longest conversation they had was before they even got to the castle. Caius frowned, wondering why he cared. It wasn’t relevant to the conversation—and neither was the current conversation itself. He could get this information elsewhere, but here he was, asking her.
"It doesn’t matter," he replied. "Any little detail is important."
Rose nodded. "At f-first, I thought we were underground, and I was right. At least, that was where I woke up. There were lots of animals and young children in cages. I seemed to be the oldest of them. When it was time for the auction, they were taken in pairs and trios until I was the only one left. Two men took me upstairs into another cage, and then I was pulled up onto the stage..."
Her words trailed off as she realized she might be speaking unnecessarily. She didn’t know what kind of information the crown prince wanted and was just recounting what had happened to her. She glanced at him—having kept her eyes on her hands the whole time—and he looked as though he was listening intently.
This made her even more uncomfortable. He raised a brow at her silence, and Rose turned away. She wanted him gone.
"I couldn’t see the faces of the people who bid on me. All I know are the aliases they were referred to by: Lady Fox, Lord Wolf, Lady Phoenix, and Lord Bear. There were also a lot of guards and an old man who made me sign a contract. Then I was given to Lady Fox."