Tarkyn frowned, “But surely, if a healthy baby girl had been born, no matter what happened, news of it would have leaked out?”
“No Sire. For the last few months of her pregnancy, the queen kept only her closest lady in waiting and a midwife in attendance on her. Stormaway, as the king’s counsellor and I, as the queen’s counsellor, also knew and attended Her Majesty. But after her previous unhappy experiences, the queen did not take any chances and only one nursery maid joined us after the birth.” He shrugged. “As you must realise, had any of these closely trusted servants spoken out, it would have been regarded as treason and dealt with accordingly.”
Having been bred in the shadow of the monarchy, none of the sorcerers sitting there thought it at all strange that a person might be execut
