章 141: AN AGREEMENT

They stood waiting for the Queen to command them to attack Xaden, but she waved her hands down, indicating that they should drop their weapons.

They did so reluctantly.

"And I have said that I am certain that she had no hand in what happened." She said. "She was aware, yes, but she didn't try to kill you. Xaden, you are much wiser than this. Why didn't she deny it all from the beginning? Why accept one and then deny another?"

"Because she wants you to believe her. She wants her sympathizer to think like you're thinking, Your Majesty." He said. "Your majesty, when my entire family was being massacred, you did not say a word. You had the power to stop it, and yet you did not."

The Queen went quiet.

"I remember you visiting us when I was only a child." He said. "You were my mother's friend, and then, yet you let her be murdered, let my entire family be killed senselessly without a fair trial."

She hated being reminded of the past.