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Of course, the relief Their Majesties feel at having survived a poisoning attempt is tempered by their understandable disquiet at not knowing who planned the infamous act and why.

All parties thought that the assassin you felled would provide illuminating testimony, but the villain compounded sin with sin by taking his own life in captivity, presumably with an additional dose of poison he had stored away on his person.

Soldiers swarm over every stone and bush on the palace grounds to search for clues. You're in grand support of the effort to chase down the culprits…until:

"Banished?"

Audrey buries her face in her hands. "Yes, on the morrow," she sobs.

Onward