•Dahlia• “What do you mean by already making changes?” I asked Alena slowly. “Dowager Princess Meredith has ordered for the new recruits of the Central Army to stop cluttering the palace and make themselves sparse.” Alena answered without delay. I blinked a couple of times as I tried to get her words to register in my head. And when they finally did, I still had to say, “She did what???” Alena bit down on her lower lip awkwardly. She, of all people, knew what I did just to get Gabriel to actually get those recruits into training. I was under the burning sun for hours being mocked and taunted. Then moved past that to be mocked and taunted away from the sun. Just so some no-name lady could show up and uproot the seeds of my labor? Hell, no. I closed the document that I had just picked

