Curious

"What did I hear you say?" Roseline asked.

"Your highness..." All the servants shouted.

"Don't your highness me and tell repeat what you said before I fire you all." Roseline said.

"Your Highness..." They again shouted.

"Give yourself numbers." Roseline ordered.

"One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty." They all counted.

"And you too Spyro." Roseline said.

"Twenty-one." Spyro added.

"Now, I will ask you one after the other. And if you don't answer me, you will be fired big time. I mean for good. Now, One, what did I hear you say?" Roseline asked.

"I did not say anything Your Highness." The first servant answered.

"You are fired!" Roseline said.

"Your Highness!" The first servant shouted.

"I will say Your Highness." A lady shouted fork afar.

"What number are you?" Roseline asked.

"Evelyn, number fifteen Your Highness." She answered.

"Oh, Evelyn. I can't believe you can still gang up with people and talk about me and my husband. You've got the nerves. You remember what I promised to do to you the next time you do this. You will get punished but that will be after you tell me." Roseline said.

"Now tell me." She added.

"I was washing the dishes when I heard the servants talk about it so I asked them what they were saying. They said His Majesty left early this morning to go to his girlfriend's place." Evelyn explained.

"What? Girlfriend?" Roseline exclaimed.

"Yes Your Highness." All the maids answered.

"Then did you all know about her?" Roseline asked.

"Yes Your Highness." They chorused.

"I can't believe that. Spyro!!" Roseline called.

"Yes Your Highness." Spyro answered.

"Get a book and a pen. I will ask them questions, jot things down as they talk." Roseline ordered.

"Okay, your highness." Spyro answered.

"Now, you Evelyn come forward. Tell me what you know about her." Roseline said.

"She is His Majesty's childhood friend from what I heard. I heard she follows him around, fight beside him, go to parties with him." Evelyn explained.

"So how did they get into the relationship?" Roseline asked.

"I heard that Lady Shaye told His Majesty that if he wants her to fight beside him on the battle he is on to, he have to go in a relationship with her. And His Majesty agreed." Another servant said.

"I also heard that they have been together for ten years and that His Majesty did not stop the relationship since he enjoyed it." Another added.

"I also heard that they were planning on getting married but since she is not the destined Queen His Majesty promised to keep her as his concubine." Another servant said.

"What!!" Roseline said.

"Say more!" Roseline commanded.

"Another thing is that His Majesty's sister likes her. Not that much but at least a little." Another servant said.

"What is His Majesty's sister's name?" Roseline asked.

"Veronica. Your Highness." Another servant answered.

"Oh Veronica." Roseline said.

"But she prefers to be called Vero." Evelyn added.

"Okay. What else do you know?" Roseline asked.

"We know nothing Your Highness." The servants chorused.

"No one knows her place." Roseline said.

""No Your Highness." They answered.

"Find out about that and tell me before night falls. You are all dismissed." Roseline said and the servants left.

"What are you planning on doing?" Spyro asked.

"What do you think I would do? Go to her place?" Roseline asked.

"I thought you would do that." Spyro answered.

"No, am not that reckless. The only thing I can do now is focus on getting stronger." Roseline said.

"I need to get my powers. Leslie is only with that Lady because she fights beside him." Roseline said.

"But you know once a man rely and trust on something, it isn't easy to take their minds off it." Spyro said.

"And that's why I need a plan. I will make him love me and forget that damn prostitute who call herself Shaye." Roseline said with confidence.

Somewhere in City Y

"Phew." A lady said.

"What happened you have sneezed six times in a roll?" Leslie asked.

"I don't know. Guess someone is talking about me." She said