Chapter 225: Silent Treatment
"Did Your Grace not sleep well?" Rylen asked as they walked to the Queen’s wing.
Caius didn’t answer his cousin; rather, he walked a little faster. Rylen watched this with a concerned expression. Something was clearly wrong. However, this was not the time, as not only did they have a council meeting today but Rylen needed to speak to Caius before then.
They got to the entrance of the dining room, and Rylen tried once again to speak to the crown prince, but Caius wasn’t receptive at all. Rylen was quick to give up as they walked into the room.
Caius took his seat first, his expression icy, and the maid who brought the dishes to the table almost jumped away in fright. Rylen glanced at the crown prince, but Caius didn’t even spare him a look.
Rylen frowned as they waited for the Queen to arrive. There were lots of things he needed to discuss with the prince before the council meeting later in the morning.
The most important one was the discussion about when they would head to Furtherfield. Things were not going well—the guards they had sent were having a very tough time.
It was as though the bandits knew exactly how they would be attacked and had come up with several ways to avoid them, or they would engage with the guards—mostly injuring them. But according to the letter he got the night before, two guards had died from the injuries they sustained.
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Lord Leopold suspected that the bandits were using weapons coated in poison. The problem was that they didn’t seem to recognize the type of poison used, and at the moment, Lord Leopold didn’t have the physicians to deal with it.
Rylen glanced at the prince again. This was new information they hadn’t had a chance to discuss and he clearly wasn’t going to get the chance now.
Last night, Mister Henry had also interrupted him to inform him that Lord Elrod would be absent from the meeting today as he was terribly sick, and there were reasons to believe he might have been poisoned at the ball.
However, this was simply the diagnosis his physician had given. Lord Elrod himself refused to believe he had been poisoned. Rather, he believed he may have either drunk too much or taken something he shouldn’t have.
Henry was panicking that the former was the case. He had immediately questioned the servants as soon as he heard the information, but all the servants denied knowing anything.