Chapter 26

Benedict feared that the people would lose their faith in him as fast as they had been prepared to have any in him at all. He had ordered night guards to patrol and curfews to be put in place but still, these assassins roamed freely, invisible to the soldiers. Their training far exceeded anything that the army had been given. Benedict had ordered Tordor to find someone to train an elite group within the army to fight, and move under cover of darkness as the assassins did.

Hester continued with her visits and charitable work. In many ways it was as if nothing had changed. She had not seen Dargo since the night that Benedict had overthrown the kingdom. She wondered if he had been caught and imprisoned or even put to death. It was always a possibility. Nevertheless, she still looked for Dargo wherever she went when she left the palace, hoping