224 The Inner Circle Meeting

They found more items in the room before the king decided it was time to call it quits for the moment. Among some of the things they found were ashes that had been sealed in a small vial, pieces from a cloth that looked like wool. The king said it was from a cloak that magicians usually wore. It made sense. There was no doubt anyway that there had been a lot of magical activity in that room. The king called a quick meeting that same day to decide the next course of action. The members of that meeting still consisted largely of the folks who had searched the secret room. The only additions were the queen herself now who insisted that she had to be filled in with what was going on and a blond dude that was introduced to the others as Terrilo’s husband. “I don't like this.” Lara was saying firmly. “That we had something like this in the castle all this time and no one knew is very concerning. And as for Ella, I'll have her head on a pike when she returns from the mission. How could she