บท 99: Ready to Die

“Have you seen His Majesty around?” Anastasia asked Tilla the moment she entered her bedroom with a tray of food.

Tilla looked around the room and replied, “I thought he was here with you. That’s why I didn’t come here early to check up on you.”

Tilla set the tray aside on the table and sneered, “I thought he said that he would personally take care of you. But I guess he only meant that for yesterday.”

Anastasia giggled at how angry Tilla looked. “Relax, Tilla. Caspian was here with me for the whole night. He took care of me really well. He was here until Zenon came and said something about wer-wool. And he urgently ran off without telling me where he was going. So, I was asking if you knew where he was.”

“Ah! He earned a little bit of my respect then.” Tilla let out a sigh of relief. She then sat down at the edge of Anastasia’s bed and asked her, “By the way, what’s a wer-wool?”