After Caleb’s grand display, I decide to remove myself from the gruesome sight and return to my old room, to see if it’s been ransacked. Entering, I notice a few things that are strewn about, but for the most part, everything is more or less as I left it. With a quick cleaning, it will be good as new.
I set to work, stripping the sheets from the bed, when someone comes through my door.
“Harper? Thank the gods.”
Turning, I see Bethany rushing toward me. I open my arms just in time to receive a big hug from her.
“I was so worried about you,” Bethany says. “No one could find you. And then when you returned, and those soldiers took you…”
“Did you get the servants away from the explosion?” I ask, not forgetting the task I had entrusted her with, when it was clear that I was going to be ca
