“It's time!” The guards standing in the entrance of my hospital room announced stone-faced, motioning for us to step out. They looked like they had been instructed to drag us out if we wasted another minute, and they were ready to do it any moment from now.
Uncle Lucas had arrived a few minutes ago, and since then, he had been pacing around in the room. He couldn't curse out like I knew he wanted to, because the palace maid was there. So he had stuck to pacing nonstop in the room, making me extremely nervous.
Thankfully, the palace maid was done with me before the guards came. My refusal to allow her to pack my hair made us finish quickly.
I stood up, smoothed my dress and followed behind Uncle Lucas who was stepping outside the door already.
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