"How is His Majesty now?" Kaelith asked the moment he entered the palace chamber, his voice carrying both urgency and restrained anxiety.
Elder Yasoria looked up immediately. She had not returned home despite the late hour, and the faint exhaustion shadowing her sharp eyes showed she had been waiting for him for quite some time. "You are finally here, Minister Kaelith!" she exclaimed, rising swiftly from her seat.
Her attention shifted when she noticed the figure behind Kaelith. "Ah—Lady Sana," she said, her tone softening slightly in surprise.
Sana lowered her head politely, clasping her hands together as she stepped forward. "Greetings, Elder Yasoria," she said with a respectful bow.
Though her status as Kaelith's wife made her equal in rank to the elder, her manner carried the grace of a well-taught junior, afterall she was five years younger than elder Yasoria.
