Royal Palace
"I will speak only to Her Majesty," the seer declared. His voice was no loud but it's was firm.
Since the guards had seized him for interrogation, the questioning had yielded nothing. The man refused to answer, his body frail and trembling, already seeming to teeter on the edge of death.
The Queen demanded answers. The men feared that if the seer died without confessing, the queen would deem them incompetent. Thus, though they dared not offer him medicine, neither did they resort to torture. Instead, they allowed his illness to ravage him.
It was only after relentless questioning that he finally spoke but with one condition: he would utter his secrets only in the Queen's presence.
"What rank or claim do you possess to demand an audience with the Queen?" the interrogator asked, his voice dripping with disdain. Of course he knew that this seer was favored by the king but now the king was dead and the queen suspects him.
