Three Intruders

Lord Calyx violently gripped the arms of his throne upon hearing this, grinding his teeth so fiercely that the screeching sound alone would have killed everyone in the room if they were ordinary humans. Conversely, Lady Faye gloated with delight, while Lady Lyria's eyes sparkled with interest.

Learning that she was responsible for the intel that made their initial offensive successful, Valandar had a more measured reaction. It allowed him to see her in a new light, but it was hard to appreciate her remembering the fiasco that followed. Unfortunately, no one could have predicted that a foreigner would throw a wrench into the well-oiled machine of their perfect plan.

Lord Calyx's livid grimace of anger was understandable. For their plan to work so well, he had to activate all his sleeper spies scattered across Havocspire Citadel, but also give up his own double identity. Decades of meticulously adjusted preparations had turned to dust in a blink.