Chapter 196

"What can they be?" I asked. "Father was suspicious about the closed casket at the funeral so he ordered men to dig up the body. They cracked open the casket and found a replica of your mother's body with fake hair, fake teeth, skin, nails... everything. It was a very, very life-like, plaster mold of the queen but wasn't her..." He said. It startled me! "What?" I asked back. "That's what we're all saying! Father is now tearing the city apart looking for her. He has the morgue being searched as well as the mortuary and the cathedral. The people working there seem to not know a thing but father might have them imprisoned or worse. I don't know what's going on but shit is about to hit the fan twice as hard as it did last week..." He responded. "Last week?" I asked. "You don't know?" He gasped, covering his mouth, "Okay, father had that official who was a southerner be interrogated for the whereabouts of Kijus. They were probably going to kill him but somehow he escaped without a trace...