Mystery guy

King Alexander appeared to be sleeping soundly on his bed. Put there was almost a kind of physical tension in and around his room at the moment, that was what made him wake up earlier than usual on this day.

"Hmmmph!" He mumbled as he looked around to see his palace guards standing all around his room with some of the knights. "What is this?"

He sat uprightly on his bed as soon as he had made the last statement. The guards had probably been standing there for a while with something important that they had to tell him. But since no one dared to disturb the king in his sleep, they all stood there waiting for him to wake up on his own.

"Speak at once! What's with the hovering?" The king asked again authoritatively when he saw that they had been hesitant to answer him the first time.

"I'm sorry my king!" The chief guard who had been on duty the previous night stated apologetically as he bowed down with one knee. "One of the wolves escaped in the dark of the night. We tried our best to st