The Trials

"A pigeon… How interesting…"

Nikolai mumbled to himself as he watched the curious bird fly right past him. He most certainly couldn't recall ever seeing this bird in Valcrez, considering that ravens and crows were the more common ones seen. Whoever that pigeon belonged to, it wasn't from their kingdom.

"Oh, did you see it fly past you?"

He turned around to greet the person he was most intimately familiar with. To his surprise, Mineah had snuck up behind him, her eyes remained glued on the pigeon now flying beyond the horizon.

"You recognize the owner of the pigeon, don't you?" Nikolai casually stated as he looked at her. "Only someone from your kingdom would ever use a pigeon and given the fact that you and your people are the only foreigners living here, there's no other possibility."