Chapter 140: A Truth Given to the Crowd
Lyria's POV
I stared at both of them for a moment, unsure how to answer the question Baron Redwick had posed.
"…Is it… i-important?" I asked quietly, my fingers curling faintly against the edge of the window frame.
Baron Redwick did not hesitate.
"It may not seem so to you, Your Highness," he said, his tone measured but firm, "but it is to us."
I blinked.
He adjusted his spectacles, his gaze moving briefly around the abandoned space before returning to me.
"From the state of this section alone, it is clear that it has long been neglected," he continued. "This is not a place one simply stumbles upon. If not for you, we would not have known it existed at all."
There was a pause, brief but deliberate.
"As such," he added, "I find myself rather curious as to how you came to know of it."
I did not answer at once.
Because I did not know how to.
