Chapter 244

"Why are you dilly dallying here?" The guard asked. That was when I realized he was talking to another guard. This made me sigh in relief.

’So I wasn’t found out. Thank God.’ I thought.

"Well there is nothing to guard here in the garden right?" The other guard replied. "It is rather boring you know."

"Well you are correct there." The guard said. "But we cannot be lax. Did you hear about the knights that were punished because of their misconduct in their work? I heard they were given fifty lashes of the whip." The guard shivered in fright.

"The crown prince is sometimes fearsome." The other guard said. "Even though those knights were from the elite under the queen’s authority, he was able to punish them severely even without the queen being here."

"Yes, well they were lucky to have only fifty lashes of the whip as punishment. I heard if they were not under the queen’s elite knights, then they would have been beheaded." The guard explained.

"What?!" The other guard was surprised.