Hilde did not miss sensing how Queen Heloise had become aware of the atrocity that was happening in her presence. For the Queen to have found out sooner about what had happened outside the House of Contemplation, at least one person present at the scene had to have been loyal to her.
Hilde had been prepared to be that person. If she had found her elder sister to be someone who was willing to listen and act sensibly on the knowledge she had been given, there would now be no need for any pretense between them.
But Queen Heloise just HAD to let it slip that her younger sister was nothing more than trash in her eyes.
That that so-called trash had the gall to try becoming something more, right before her very eyes, even! To stop being so frightened of her, to speak to her of truths she had
