Chapter 214

"Diana, I think we should probably start heading back now."

I'd been chewing on the fruit Cassion had cut small and fed into my mouth, and my eyes went round.

"Looks like Nobel's run into some kind of problem."

I swallowed the fruit down my throat in a hurry.

"You'll choke. Eat slowly."

I took the glass of water Cassion held out, drank, wiped the water that had run down my chin, and asked.

"What happened? Something big?"

"It's an infuriating thing for me, and a big thing for you."

A matter in Nobel, but tied to Cassion somehow? What on earth could it be?

"Got it. Let's go right now."

Cassion let out a bitter laugh.

Only then did I realize I'd just agreed to cut our trip short without a single moment's hesitation.

"Your Highness, it's not that I disliked the trip—"

"I know. It's just that Nobel…