Adela sat across from Berengar in his study. The man was dressed in his Imperial Regalia as he poured fortified wine into a pair of two gilded chalices before handing one off to Adela. At the moment, he had pulled out the old skull chalice and gazed into the golden eye slots of his brother's cranium. With a heavy sigh on his lips, he revealed the news to his little wife.
"I will execute Wolfgang for his crimes, and your sister will move into the old castle with her children."
It shocked Adela to hear this. There was a look of disbelief on her pretty face as she struggled to come to terms with his news. The young woman no longer tied her hair up into her signature twintails and instead allowed it to flow across the right side of her face like a river of molten gold.