Chapter 17

The king used the junction that linked to the Middle Forest. Even when he had done that, he did not leave before having his mother's Secret Garden. He sent his men to search it dry and they came back with nothing helpful. The place was deserted as though no one had ever occupied it before. Terese had disappeared immediately after Shinja left.

The princes, Brown and Silver, watched the king instruct his men to search the flower garden because that is how it appeared to them. Terese had put a charm over it that no one expe