**Odissey—LUDEN, Sara Mun**
"One of the representatives from the Ashwyck family was murdered, and the culprit is none other than one of the Blood Slaves." Captain Tassius spelt out in one breath.
The first thing Ember did was to shut her eyes as she breathed in deeply. Then her eyes went to the little chalkboard in her room. The one where she had drawn hypothesis upon hypothesis on what the crown prince could be planning by sending Captain Falheim her way.
She had thought that he meant to sabotage the Blood Slaves who were technically the only source of food for the twelve families. But that possibility had grown dimmer and dimmer the more time went by during their journey.
So she had come with three other possibilities of how the crown prince intended to sabotage her diplomatic mission to Vaskor by sending Captain Falheim who was the leader of the Blood Slaves.