The brat survived my attempts to get her out of the way. Somehow she always seems to come out on top. Even when she should learn to stay in her place, she pushes boldly ahead. His majesty doesn't help this as he is always too willing to allow her to do whatever she wants. While other women are restricted in where they can go, she can just request an audience with him. It hurts to know that I should be the one he seeks out, but instead that brat of a child gets his time.
Getting an assassin into the palace had been easy. Bringing him in when they were starting to set up the tents made him seem like he was just another servant in the palace. I made sure that he was allotted to rooms near the emptier corridors. As a trained assassin he didn't mind being in the cold as much as others would,
