After hearing the second explosion, Alinna was somewhat shocked, while thinking: "The enemy has managed to get past the palace's strong defenses and into the central area of the palace, despite all the defensive incantations and soldiers? How is it possible that they managed to do it in such a short time? To manage to pass quickly through all these obstacles, as if they were nothing, would require a very powerful magician or perhaps... not.... "
She knew the answer but didn't want to admit it. She buried these emotions deep in her soul and concentrated on not letting them be in vain, all the lives lost; in the name of what she and her mother could preserve their own.
Alinna suspected that the enemy had the help of traitors inside the palace, otherwise, their sudden advance to this place
