Chapter 18
ALL THE SECTIONS of the most daring plan she had ever come up with had come together in Nellie’s mind. She explained her thoughts.
“If Bruno is with Casper in the palace, and the guards are intent on keeping the boys there, those guards are controlled by the shepherd, and he is stepping out of the shadows to take control. I doubt he planned to do that just yet. He might have wanted to wait until Casper did something that made him so disliked that the people would support the shepherd in removing him from the palace. But Bruno is a snag in his plan, because the shepherd doesn’t know what Bruno will do. Bruno can tell the people a story about his imprisonment, and it is all true. One thing the shepherd hasn’t been able to erase from the citizens of Saardam is the love for the ki
