THIRD PERSON POV
"What is that woman doing here? Who summoned that troublemaker to the palace? Was it Rochelle?" Empress Vesta asked her lady-in-waiting while the other servants are getting the empress ready for the banquet.
"From what I've heard, yes. The concubine summoned the former empress Elpis to the palace." Vesta slammed her hands on the dressing table.
"Why? How- how is that vile woman always one step ahead of me?! Did she noticed something is not right with the emperor or was it just by struck of luck?" Vesta's lady-in-waiting tried to calm the empress, but it's futile since Vesta has long abandoned the very emotion that was her weakness a few years back.
"Felicita- I think it's best if we hide all of the bottles that contain the very liquid to bewitched the emperor. That
