Chapter 105: Whispers in the Dark

Knight’s POV The palace's corridors were more silent than they ought to have been. It was more than just the silence of a royal chambers evening. Like the prelude to a storm, there was a sense of tension in the air. For hours, I had been slipping in and out of the shadows, talking to the appropriate people and keeping an ear out for rumors in the places where others would not go. Since Cameron's assassination attempt, the nobility had been on edge. But I had to discover that there was more going on here. I rapidly discovered that it didn't take much to plunge a kingdom into anarchy when authority was in jeopardy. And the desire for power wasn't limited to the nobility. Rumors were rampant on the city's streets. While some of them had a darker edge, others were innocuous. There were rumors about an ancient power that had been hidden away and was just waiting for the proper time to come back. I wasn't so gullible as to overlook the warning flags. Not after what I'd seen in the last se