"His Majesty would like your assurance that Her Highness is safe.”

“A great many things, most of which no one, including myself and—I suspect—King Regis, are privy to. The imperials have all arrived and been taken to the guest quarters, the Crownsguard is being quietly recalled from the city, and—as I understand it—the Kingsglaive has undergone a change in leadership.”

“They have attacked the crystal chamber!”