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Her father had been very reluctant to meet with Lord Goffe for some reason, but Pauline hadn't been able to curb her curiosity and had actually visited the Gray Warren once already.

Sadly, the entrance didn't lend itself well to stealthy infiltration--which was no doubt the point--so she hadn't been able to see the underground fortifications with her own eyes.

But she hadn't needed to enter it in order to realize that there was most definitely something very strange about that place.

For one thing, she couldn't sense inside it. She wasn't sure how that was even possible. Had Hector Goffe actually infused the entire castle with his "soul power" or whatever it was that servants used? That notion seemed utterly ridiculous to her, considering how enormous that underground barrier seemed to be.

And for another thing, she'd felt incredibly uncomfortable while she was near that place. Some unexplained sensation in the back of her mind pestered her the entire time she was there, and though she couldn't tell what the cause of it was, she knew for a fact that it was no natural thing. Some kind psychic security system? Or a warding mechanism, perhaps?

Whatever the explanation, she hadn't been keen to go back there a second time. She might've disagreed with her father a lot of the time, but this was one of those instances where she could very much see the wisdom in his type of thinking.

That place was dangerous. Whatever the hell was going on there, she was no longer curious enough to find out. Compared to that, the royal palace's security cameras were positively comforting.

'You may want to listen to your advisors on this one,' said the reaper with the Queen.

"Hmph. What makes you say that?"

'Because the outbreak of a second Continental War would be a very serious matter.'

"You think I do not know that?"