Cedric looks grim. “The reason I needed to make Vivian a political prisoner, and why I was so adamant that you become her substitute, was because my parents, along with Derrick’s, were visiting the Eastern Kingdom when they were kidn*pped and tortured. Vivian’s family used the opportunity to try to gain control of the North. Even when they failed, they refused to let me investigate the murders. I always suspected Vivian’s father knew a lot more than he was letting on.”
I am shocked by his words. “What? Wait, are you saying he was involved in—”
“We don’t know for sure. But a lot of evidence was buried and disappeared. The few witnesses we had managed to find were killed off by the king.”
A lot of pieces I never knew existed are falling into place now, including Cedric’s initial hostility
