The palace gardens were quiet in the morning. Almost too quiet for Melisa's taste. She sat across from Queen Aria (she was finally getting more used to calling her that) at a small stone table, both of them nursing cups of steaming tea.
[This is weird,] Melisa thought, studying Aria's perfect posture and serene expression. [I just took down a tiny insurrection, and now we're having a fucking tea party.]
"So," Aria said, setting her cup down. "Tell me everything."
Melisa sighed, leaning back in her chair.
"Well, Your Majesty, turns out..."
Melisa proceeded to spill her guts. All the way from that charming little group of nim who want to burn the kingdom to the ground, to the family attack, and even what happened with the warehouse (though Melisa left out the part about how she'd been the one to actually kill those poor workers).
Aria's eyebrow raised slightly, the only sign that any of this information surprised her.
"And where is this... Koros now?"
