AMALTHEA'S POV

"Sir, I still don't understand why we should believe her. Why are we wasting our time here? I am telling you, there is nothing wrong here. I had checked everything before coming to the palace. She said that the rogues will kill our guards and render them unconscious, but not even one of our guards is unconscious or dead. Everyone is on their post as decided earlier. Everything is the same as we had left," Charles said from some distance, and though he was making it look like he was whispering, it was clear that he was saying all of that for me to hear.

However, something was...