Misty smiled as everything went exactly as planned, then looked ahead a few minutes to make sure that the personal guards really did turn on their assigned Royals. They were supposed to be loyal to the country first, their assigned Royal second. But you never knew if that remained true after years of service.
All that it took was for one of them to crack, and that would be the end of their whole scheme.
And someone always cracked.
It was inevitable, and Misty lived for the drama of the moment when they realized that everything had gone wrong.
But the truly glorious part, and the primary reason that she had come early today, was because Karl and Cara had been the absolute perfect choice to send to straighten out this timeline.
They hadn't even realized that there was someone else here trying to keep things on a different course, and because they hadn't been looking for anyone else tampering with time, they hadn't even been noticed.
