Chapter Four: Two Orders, One Expendable Prince

Refuse either side and the other would call him an enemy agent. Accept both and each would call him a spy. Lain pocketed them together. “Tell both Their Highnesses that I depart tomorrow.” 【Red command token and Frost inspector’s badge obtained.】 【Dual-faction causal anchors established.】 【Available event: Orders at White Ridge.】 【Shallow price—forget the joy of reuniting with an old friend.】 He saw thirteen-year-old Serena returning after two years away. He had waited all night in the snow, and when she stepped from the carriage, he believed for the first time that someone might truly come back. He closed the system. “No.” Serena stepped from behind a pillar. “How will you investigate orders you have never read?”