The situation had gone beyond just idle curiosity and that was why Lorraine was hiding in a part of the maze in the middle of the night and watching Nicolas' statue in anticipation for the start of the secret meeting she knew would be taking place any time soon.
All day long, the princess had been contemplating on whether she should have brought a few guards along; and even at that moment, she was still thinking about it. But, as she had reminded herself countless times, the only thing men with weapons were good for was disrupting plans. The last thing she wanted to happen was for a group of people desperately looking to be in the possession of an artifact capable of laying waste to an entire kingdom to get spooked and escape into the unknown.
Of course, she could also have told someone
