The dim prison fell into a brief silence, as Vivian, who had been silent all along, gazed at the place beyond the prison where the Chief of Imperial Guard had departed.
It seemed this was a "careless" Chief of Imperial Guard, who, upon leaving, only symbolically closed the cell door without locking it. Was this... encouraging them to escape?
But she didn't want to escape now.
Everything happening here at this moment greatly shocked her. For the Sivallantin people, the Gallog Dynasty was a sacred place in their hearts. The history books Vivian had read all made great efforts to describe the dynasty's glory, usually glossing over the years following the death of the Great Guardian Merlin.
But now, she was witnessing the dynasty's decline with her own eyes.
"I heard about things in the Empire before; many people fled to Siwalant."
