66 - Fight Back

"We can't get out of here. Many soldiers are guarding the front. Isabelle, don't you know that the kingdom is about to go to war?"

I was still busying my fingers with the various chains and cuffs attached to these iron bars. His words forced me to look up with my muscles stretched in surprise.

My mouth opened wide as my eyes glared at him. "W-war? Are you sure about it, Frederick?"

He nodded his face in his skin that was as pale as snow in the clouds. "You will not believe me. However, William has already formed an army to attack Matthias. He is working with Nathaniel."

My body instantly went limp at that. "No way ... Is this all my fault? Should I not have run away and rather be captured by them."

"Of course not," he replied at once. I heard him cluck in annoyance and throw his face down on me. "They just want to snatch you. More precisely, they don't like it when you're taken by Matthias. They won't let Matthias become king."

"Then what should I do?" I asked. My hands were cold, but