When Cassius arrived the sll of dry blood greeted him. His heart was startled almost imdiately because Arabella hadn’t been in harm, he was sure of it as he had ordered Lastor to put a magic on him that would help him be alerted whenever Arabella was in danger. He did felt her heartbeat quake but usually when she wake up, her heartbeat was as fast.
Worries co washing down in him as he approached the open door only to find her standing in front of a sobbing maid while pressing a hand on her forehead. Other servants who had ca looked both fearful and ashad as they pursed their lips, unable to help the crying servant.
And he heard her voice, admonishing the maid that was still crying, "Have you been serving with fear?"
The maid clamd without being able to say a word, "N- No your highness... but the body shocked -"
"So you thought it was a better idea to accuse that I killed the servant rather than to find a soldier," Arabella pressed her tone and the maid flailed, unable to provide an answer. Seeing that Arabella could only sigh as she turned around to face many eyes staring at her with doubt and fear except for Cassius who had rushed to her side.
He took her hand, making sure she was alright, "What is this chaos?" A demanding voice echoed from him and she saw how all the servants in the room flinched and in a single instance all of them had bent down their knees, offering a deep bow of politeness and fear.
"You explain," randomly he chose one of the servant who lifted her head in fear. She glanced at Arabella and then the maid before her who had been punished, knowing well that only a fool would make the sa mistake.
Arranging her own word, the maid answered, "I- I heard a s- scream coming from the lady’s chamber. When I rushed I found the maid before screaming that she had seen a dead body whose life was ended by the lady."
Cassius gritted his teeth, turning to the maid with a glare. When he pulled his hand towards his hip, ready to kill one servant to teach them a lesson, Arabella held him by the elbow and shook her head, "I’ve fired her. We don’t need to have further blood on our hands."
"Your majesty, is there a problem?" The voice that echoed at once ticked Cassius off.
He didn’t turn his head at first, inhaling a deep breath that seed to have quaked the air in the room by sheer volu of his anger. He had known the servants in the castle had to be renewed. All of them were half bakes who are either a frightful bunch, coward, or the servants who were always ready to look at the other side and lie out of fear of their life and money.
To add tue problem with even further annoyance was the ministers that he had just t, now they had followed him to the room and was studying to the body of the servant who was nailed to the wall with blood and demonic drawings printed on it.
"We heard that there was a chaos," trailed one of the minister, a smiling man with blood red eyes and brown hair. His expression was full of smile which made Arabella to question if that was simply his poker face or that he was smiling because he’s able to grab Cassius’s weakness. "It’s worriso that the castle has been breached by so many evil entities, so I suggested for the other ministers to co here in case you are put in harm."
"It was unnecessary," Cassius cut him off and he smiled.
"Of course, what can any creature do against you?" He continued before turning to Arabella and gave a deep bow. "It is also my first ti seeing you, Lady Arabella. My na is Camillius Blessen. They call Minister Lius. Once a knight now work to read the laws and to enact them as a part of the authority in Versailles. Pardon for my late introduction as I had just arrived back from my wife’s motherland."
Arabella turned to Cassius whose face had showed his skepticism toward Minister Lius, making her to question if there was bad blood between them.
She bowed slightly to Minister Lius, "I apologize that you have to greet in such a terrible timing."
"Terrible timing," muttered Minister Lius before he turned toward the servant who was dead and pinned on the wall, a face he hadn’t seen so he studied the traces of blood and humd, "This is a human’s doing."
Not a witch he ant because everything was done physically.
Arabella felt sothing gnawing in her heart and turned to look at Cassius. She didn’t know who had done this but why does she feel so guilty?
"Camillius," Cassius called, "That’s the end for now. All of you retreat from this place."
But Minister Lius looked straight at him by the eyes. Raising his hand, he stopped the other ministers from leaving and walked to Cassius’s side, whispering in a volu only the two of them could hear, "I do understand that you wish to take care of this situation privately so the lady’s na wouldn’t be drag to this problem. But I am sure your majesty that you knew the best way to salvage the lady’s na is by showing her innocence here and from what I could tell this is not the doing of the lady at all."
Arabella could see them whisper but didn’t know what Minister Lius had said. A part of her heart however felt that sothing was amiss.
How is it a great coincidence that the ministers were here when they found a dead body in her room? That the maids who were always taught to stay quiet had yelled upon seeing the dead body and accuse her as a witch?
And that now a minister had stepped in their room, smiling as though this was a perfect chance?
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