Despite doing her best to ease her ladies-in-waiting, Milena herself wasn't very keen on going. Still, she had to go anyway, and she hated to push back difficult issues. The quicker she'd be able to end this, the better... After a short while, she finally stood up again, and made her way to the throne. She was once again helped up a couple of times, but she didn't mind this time. In fact, the closer she got, the more nervous she found herself about seeing the King. It was a strange and uneasy feeling. Was it because she had managed to avoid Ellias for a while, was she out of practice? The fact that he was drunk was probably making everything worse. She had never seen Ellias drunk, or at least not to that point. She just couldn't figure out what was going on in his head, and Milena hated

