Chapitre 26: Fool me once...

After thinking it over for hours, I came to a conclusion: Whatever I did, I would get innocent people in the crossfire, but I couldn’t sit and do anything either.

That’s when I was struck by genius.

I needed time to find the wizard behind the curtain and I needed them to keep them thinking their plans were working so that they wouldn’t think of changing them. Which meant that what I needed to do was to pretend I didn’t know anything.

But to catch the mastermind and bring it to justice, I needed to connect the dots, and for that I needed proof… just in case they too had some influence within the walls of the palace.

So, I needed to begin gathering my own intelligence.

Before we were invited for breakfast, I asked Min and Ling to cover for me while I entered the kitchen to look for the poison and, if I could get away with it, interrogate the chef.