"Unfortunately you are smarter than I thought and your precious friend here lived through the execution. I was so hoping he would have been shot and killed before the hood was removed." He sighs dramatically, taunting me into responding but I know better. If I play into his hand, I will look like the bad guy in front of my people. "I now know you are a troublesome one, your years in the Slums hardening you into a cunning woman with the perception of a cunning cat and this excites me. Thanks to the people I placed into the Palace, I was able to escape a few days ago and make my way to a safe place. We are now at war my dear and it will end with me reclaiming the Throne I took fourteen years ago." The medics arrived as Juden continues his monologue, Sky helping them to place Max onto a

