Cassy

With dusk, the news reached them. They had found wolfsbane im the servants' quarters. Jessica had poisoned her. The servant had admitted her crime before the council and was ready for her punishment.

Execution.

Cassy stared and stared at the food before her. She had lost her appetite upon hearing the news.

It couldn't be Jessica. The woman had no motive. It was beyond that. The woman had no single bad bone in her body. She knew Jessica. The woman was kind to a fault. She would never try to harm another.

It wasn't in her nature. It wasn't who she was.

"You must eat," Lino said, cutting through her thoughts and she raised her gaze to meet his.

"Did she really admit to it? What reason did she give? What was her motive?" Cassy gushed, unable to keep her thoughts at bay.

It troubled her greatly. Jessica had been the closest thing she had had to a friend in this place. In this castle.

When she had been with child, the woman had always been a call away. Having been a