“When do I get my first assignment?”
My question caused a strange hush to fall over the breakfast table—which was strange, considering the fact that no one had said anything to one another since the moment that we had come here. The Queen’s brother hadn’t stayed the night, which meant that he wasn’t here for breakfast, and I believe that that was why there had been silence between all of us—up until now of course.
“Your first assignment?”
It was Marcel who had asked that question, and I turned my head to the side so that I would be able to look at him for a moment, to see his face, to see his reaction. At the moment, I would have had to say that he looked confused by what I had just asked, for his brows caved in at the centre, and his mouth had been pulled into a much thinn
