“I don’t know. He was released from the courtroom.”
“Why didn’t you detain him?!”
“But how? On what basis?”
“Fuck! It was so easy for to invent, he is a man of the prince, which means we have questions for him! Dumbass!”
***
“Karina! Karina, open the door!” Shouted Vitor Kors, having lost all composure, he violently pounded on locked door:
“Karina, open! Open, you the motherfucker! Oh Gods, forgive me, forgive me, Iness, that I involuntarily offended your memory, but this bitch has driven me to frenzy!”
And Kors kicked the door with force.
Clive huddled beside him, in such fury he had never seen his boss before.
With a couple of strokes, Kors kicked the door open and burst into the room. Clive was behind him. Karina’s apartments were empty, only a dress thrown apparently in a hurry lay on the floor. The dress of black velvet in which she performed in court. Kors picked it up:
“I knew it! I knew that this stupid bitch would run away with him!” He yelled again. “Well, we’ll see! I will catch you! I know where you will go…”
“Where?” Literally meowed Clive.
“To the estate of the prince, where else! Now we will go, we will catch up with them, remember the tavern outside the city, in the east?”
“Yes.”
“They will have to stop there. At least in order to water the horses! Check out immediately! I will kill Lis! Gods see, in memory of my Iness, I will kill this son of a bitch!”
“Sir Kors!” They heard shouts, this was the overseer of the root part of the prison tower hurrying to them/ “Sir Kors, finally I found you! We have big problems!”
“What?! Has he died?”
“No! He ran away! He is not in the chamber, and the guard is killed.”
And seeing Kors turning pale right before his eyes, the overseer hastened to add:
“I think he’s still in the tower, it’s not so easy to get out of there, and we raised the alarm…”
Kors looked at Clive, then at the overseer, he clearly didn’t know where to run, where to rush.
“Clive! Go for Lis and Karina! Kill Lis, bring Karinaback! Do you understand? Why are you looking at me like that? Show me what you are capable of!”
“Yes, sir!”
“Act!”
“And I’ll deal with this damn demon, he can’t go far. Did you block all the exits?”
“Yes, sir, all exits are blocked!”
“Follow me!”
Chapter one
What really happened
Karina felt complete devastation and fatigue, it would seem that she should have been happy, because she had done good, and Lis would not be hanged. The crowd in the marketplace will not mock him, and the platform will remain in the full possession of the dancer Norta. But Karina was not at ease, probably she was afraid of her father. Of his reactions. And this fear poisoned and overshadowed all other feelings. It froze everything, leaving only emptiness. She just didn’t know what to do! And what she had already done, was that right? Her head was full of confusion, and she really needed to talk with someone, talk about everything and hear some kind of unbiased opinion in response. Maybe hear some practical advice. How to look in the eyes of her father now. What to tell him?