Kael's POV
My instincts have never been wrong, Lucius was able to attack me because he had help. And not only ordinary help in this regard. Some close acquaintances of mine spied on me. His attack was not rough or improvised. Rather, it was calculated concise and precise. He couldn't have done that without having sensitive information about me.
The first suspects were my guards, they were in the best position to disclose sensitive information about my warfare and security. I wanted to suspect the cooks, but they would rather poison me and put an easy end to the war than assist Lucius with green wolfsbane and the truth about the fence.
The walls fell flat, the stones crumbling and disintegrating from the chemicals and the bullets. I only escaped death by a hair's breadth. It was easy t
