Chapter 30: Trade

Their mission to find a place for Queen Dowager is done. But oftentimes, Darina would try to look back at the manor as if she is assuring herself that the highness will be safe there. This concerns Marsden so he went near to her.

"Anything that bothers you, My Lady?" Marsden asked.

Darina shrugged. She rather thinks if Marsden felt uneasy. "Your lady is at the manor. Don't you feel at the loss that she cannot come with us?"

"But you are with us now, your highness," Marsden seemed to not understand what Darina meant.

"I'm talking about Dilruba," Darina clarified.

Marsden rather diverted the topic. "It seems like Dilruba does not know where Queen Mariam was heading."

"And no one knows Queen Mariam and King Rashal's whereabouts," Darina said. "And yet, we have to deal with this on our own."

"You have me," Marsden assured.

"But of course. My sister hired you as her privateer. You should fulfill your duty," Prince Thariem ad