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Her smile is strained. From the few opportunities you've had to see the princess's face up close, her smiles often look strained.

"I still don't know what happened, but I'm convinced of her innocence," Letha says, crossing over to her betrothed's side. "I might have been too hasty, ordering the arrest last night."

The princess shrugs. "It's made it easier to discuss matters going forward, if nothing else," she says. "We need this resolved now."

Letha smiles, relieved you and Princess Despina are getting along, but the princess herself taps an impatient finger on her desk. "Indeed. If we might move on? I trust in your innocence if Letha does, but you were the easiest explanation we had for what happened last night, and I'd like your assistance in finding another one. Do you have any idea who's responsible for this scheme?" The princess steeples her fingers. Letha's hand is resting on her shoulder now.

It's a good question, and one you've been wondering about since you first saw the moon last night.

You walk Princess Despina through everything you thought up in your cell last night. Another demon-lord. Another illusionist. Some scheme by Alvis and Verity. Or even Verity alone, if she really was a true demon all along.

Letha frowns at the last option. "Verity would hate you saying that," she says. "And it's a long sort of game she'd be playing, isn't it?"

"Mm," Princess Despina says. "If she's an immortal creature of darkness, she'd have the time. None of it's impossible, is it?"

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