Naturally, guards were placed around her room the moment she was gone.
Nobody even needed Isabella to say it clearly more than once. After this stunt, after the poison, after the lies, everyone knew that the healer would not be allowed to move freely again. Isabella said she wanted to have more of a conversation with her later, and that alone was enough to make the guards even more alert, because whenever Isabella said something in that soft tone, people had learned that whatever came next would probably be very unpleasant for the person she was speaking about.
Once Zara was gone, the room changed again.
The danger was still there, but now it no longer had a body standing in front of them.
Instead, all of it settled heavily into Cyrus.
He was still angry.
Very angry.
