Lord Alexander squeezed his wife's hand. He knew that she was itching for a chance to take revenge on Anita and every Nithercott that had been involved in the murder of her grandmother. When the chance had come, Akia had appeared, taking the empire by a storm and the Ridley's retreated into the shadows before their moves could be detected.
Sigrid in the meantime was pondering on why Lady Isolde had called Anita a serpent. If it was anything like Romilda, the spider or Lord Benwick, the goat, then it was not good. It was now safe to say that if you were given an animal name on this content, you were bad.
"Perhaps she means it practically, maybe she turns into a snake." Cosmos suggested.
Sigrid looked at the Ridley couple. "You called her a serpent, what do you mean by that?"
