"Send more guards, if he needs them, and make sure to protect him and lend him manpower without question,'' Elora ordered, returning to the document spread out before her.
''Yes, Your Majesty.'' Albert bowed and left the study soundlessly.
…..
In the potion shop, the customers were filled with complaints as they were driven out before they could finish their purchase.
"Why start reconstruction during peak hours?"
"Shhh… do you want to be caught? I heard it was the royal highness that instructed the closure of the shop.''
"We commoners can't bear the burn of royal or noble disputes, we'd better leave quickly.''
Different murmurs floated through the moving crowd, some filled with curiosity, others with fear of being implicated.
But all walked towards the entrance, in twos or threes, in heated discussion.
They hadn't gone far when a warp gate and guards bearing the royal emblem of daggers appeared and surrounded the potion shop.
