Autumn

“This is a disaster!” Mercury announced as she walked inside.

Elixir was helping me to pack my hair.

I looked up at her. “Is everything alright?”

“The list for the hunt festival has arrived, and it's saying you are joining the hunt as well.”

What!

My heart skipped a beat.

“I thought pregnant women didn't join the hunt?”

“Yes, that's the rule, but suddenly, it was changed. Though you've been assigned to a secluded place with the rest of the pregnant women,” Mercury further explained.

“But the queen is pregnant. She should be in the house,” Elixir remarked.

I ignored her as I thought about it. What if Philip...