Chapter 96 - Guest In The Room

Luck seemed to be on Zezi's side because the King was just about to shut the door when she had appeared at the end of the hallway.

"Your Majesty." She called out, despite not screaming her lungs out she knew that he had heard her and the way his back stiffened and the door stilled midway, showed that he indeed had.

She stopped in her tracks, when she was only a few steps away from him, her heart racing once again from the smell of the rain that flooded into her nostrils, a sharp twist of grimace shifted into her features as the smell of death that she had caught up on earlier disturbed her breath.

This wasn't his, although it was coming from his room.

What was it?

What kind of creature possessed this kind of foul stench?

"What do you want?"

Had he been in a fight with the creature? Had he been attacked, perhaps?

Her heart twisted at the thought and she tried to assess him as much as possible from his turned back to see if he was alright.

"What. Do. You. Want?" He turned slightly to