Hailey's POV
Night falls and amidst the silence I find myself attentive to all sounds that may surround me and at the same time somehow hoping that time will advance. Owen and I have decided that for now we must make another attempt to talk to the king, so we hope to have some sort of breakthrough at dinner tonight.
Although it seems rather an improbable act of much hope and little reality, but it is the only thing we can hold on to for now. After a while of being together, I decided that it would be best to keep up appearances so as not to enervate the king's temper, so I left the room while returning to my own, as I didn't think it was a good idea to tempt fate again by walking the path along the railing.
The look on the guards' faces when they saw me arrive at the room they were esc
