Chapter 203

The prince’s helplessness was plain in the captain of guards’ eyes. He hurried forward and hauled the Sand Snake off him—there was a ripping sound as a layer of her “disguise” tore.

Toppled to the floor, Obara only made a show of it, brazenly “revealing her true self.” Areo Hotah, monk-still and unblinking, did not change expression. His voice cracked like a whip: “You have offended the prince. What punishment do you deserve?”

Obara laughed, half-mad. “Ha! He is my father’s brother—may I not ‘remember’ what my father smelled like?”