Eric realized the error in the slip of his tongue seconds too late Oscar saw when the man looked guilty. Why would he hide this from him? Was everyone in the castle up to something he knew nothing about? “Spill.” “See, the queen was poisoned from the very beginning of her arrival but she didn’t die because of the phoenix- it burned it out slowly as it was not powerful then. So, the queen was sick for a bit and Anthony…well everyone thought she was drunk. He said the night she found you with Nuwa- well he didn’t say, Ju did.” The man’s face turned a shade of pink and he waved his hands in front of him in denial as he rushed on. “I don’t know what that means, but she said she wasn’t jealous or drunk it was the poison in her already that had her acting that way. Er, that part Her Majesty d

