Everyone had a swell time at the banquet till late in the evening. At the close of the banquet, the king and queen thanked everyone for coming and they later started leaving one after the other on horses and wagons.
Soon after, the great hall and the courtyard were empty except for the servants who started cleaning up the place.
Meanwhile, Prince Devy was sitting on his bed and fuming with anger in his room as he thought about the banquet. He resented the king with a passion and for some reasons he couldn't fathom, he resented Princess Tarella even more. Probably because he sees the baby as the only obstacle to achieving his dream of being the King of Avilah.
He wished he had the power to make the princess disappear or better still make the king and queen disappear forever and he would
