ASHER
“Your Majesty, I think the intruder could be the same man from the basement,” Cassandra explained from the far side of the room.
After the healer had announced her theory in the library, I’d asked her to speak with me privately back in my study. I didn’t want to further trouble the librarian, who was already completely on edge or give the other guards further reason to panic.
If the intruder was amongst the guards as we suspected, I also didn’t see any reason to reveal too much information to the ones present in the library. I wasn’t sure who I could trust these days, apparently, so I assigned the ones who’d investigated the trashed room to clean up for the librarian.
So now, it was just Cassandra and I alone together in the study. As she explained her train of thought, I couldn’
