After recalling that the Prince might not know the people she was referring to, the female soldier explained, "Kel is the owner of your armor, Prince, and Alanna is the other senior—our leader's right-hand woman."
His face looking grim, Leal nodded. "That would mean it's Baron Harmin in there."
Hilde breathed a secret sigh of relief that it wasn't the Lord Viscount. The very next moment, though, she felt guilty for it. It did not make the situation any better just because it wasn't the man she was closer to who was in immediate danger. Certainly, to Leal, there was no difference at all.
Now she felt a strong need to apologize again—for her own slips, for her people's various hostile behaviors—but then she recalled that this all happened because the Lyseans have come in the first place w
