The point of the carriage was to notify his arrival. A message could be sent, but Lith wanted to catch the Duchess by slight surprise.
She wouldn't notice until he was in her territory, after which getting to her castle would only take a few minutes.
As Lith had hoped, back in the Duchess' castle, things had suddenly gone haywire.
"Shit!" Rivera cursed and got up from her bed. She was sleeping and suddenly got an alert that the Prince was about to visit her.
She wasn't doing anything lewd or wrong and was only sleeping, but it took time for ladies to get prepared and getting ready in such a short notice was truly troublesome.
While she ran around in panic, sitting in a courtyard and eating grapes, Vanessa looked at her with interest.
'Haven't seen her this flustered before…'