Chapter 24 The Queen's Dagger

• The king grabbed the handle and saw that it was a dagger exquisitely made. The tip of the handle was a mixture of silver and gold seemingly woven over each other. Between the handle and the blade was a dark grey gemstone shaped like a shield and its crossguard and quillon were shaped like that of a wave. Securing the dark grey gemstone, two silver and gold snakes crossed over each other with their tails ending at the edge of the crossguard.
• The blade itself was also carved with the gold and silver wave until it reached the tip. It was a dagger he had never seen before so he could not pinpoint the place where it could have been made. Staring at it lifted the curiosity of the king about the queen. With Prime Minister Korun not visiting her even once before their marriage, he suspected that there was something Emery was hiding from him as well as from her father.
• Keeping the dagger underneath the long sleeves of his clothes, he left the chambers of the queen and asked for the blacksmiths all over the capital to pay him a visit as soon as possible.