ELINA
"Are you deaf or are you deliberately choosing to disobey your queen's orders?" Elijah asks my uncle in annoyance.
“To hell with that,” my uncle replies and then spits on the ground, making Elijah annoyed and want to pounce on him, but then he looks up the stairs and stops immediately when he sees me.
“Elina,” Elijah says, and they all look my way, the ones guarding the cells looking relieved, while the ones in front of them trying to get in, have a mix of emotions on their faces, from anger to embarrassment to finally, fear.
“I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that last one, uncle,” I tell him through clenched teeth, and he frowns.
“Did you see the corpses at the entrance? This is because you didn't want to listen to me when I told you that you should execute them all instead o
