#Chapter48

"Princess," Annelece, with the body of an anorexic, and merely a layer of skin covering his bones, walked towards her, with his beard reaching till his stomach, his tattered clothes.

"Annelece...Is what she said true?" Adelaida asked.

"Why would a keeper of death lie to you about killing someone?" Vierne intervened.

"You killed him?"

"I did," Lict accepted as he came forward.

"Music? Why?!" Adelaida asked as she clenched his bloody garments.

"Because he dared try and violate my lady,"

"My lady?" Nataniel looked at Vierne.

Adelaida looked down in shame, "I never thought of uncle to be someone like that,"

"But that's how he was, apparently," Vierne said....