The Three-eyed Ape People servant girl before the Emperor bowed her head submissively and stammered,
"Your Majesty, the Princess... she seems to be absent from her sleeping quarters, she may have gone out on her own."
Constantine VI furrowed his brow,
"She went out? And you lot let her slip away?"
Faced with the Emperor's interrogation, the servant girl could only repent,
"It's all our incompetence, the Princess... the Princess said, if we didn't let her go, she would sever one of her own fingers..."
The Emperor became momentarily enraged, he abruptly stood up from his reclined chair,
"Go, fetch the overseer's whip yourself."
The servant girl dared not say more, fearful of further provoking the Emperor; she slowly withdrew from the palace.
Constantine VI raised his hand, as if to summon someone.
At that moment, a hurried flurry of footsteps was heard from outside the palace.
Constantine VI dropped his hand, and then he saw the Great Shepherd Danschel walk in.
