Chapter 18- Myra

"What happened here?" I asked a maid who was off to the side.

The King had ordered that everyone except the royal family and myself clear out to avoid tampering with any evidence until detectives arrived.

The guests who had followed us must've told people what they saw because no more than five minutes later the orchestra stopped playing and no more chattering was heard, only the sound of hooves tapping against the gravel and the wheels of the carriages moving away from the castle.

"Poor Annalia, she was so young. Been working here with her mother for all her life until her mother passed away last year, now her. She came to the kitchen earlier after she cleaned out on of the emergency secret passageways telling us she'd heard something horrific."

"We all ignored her, rightfully so as she always had such an active imagination that no one ever took her seriously. She was going on about a cloaked figure, the rest was a jumbled mess of patois that none of the other helped understood. No o