Meanwhile, from Katherine's perspective...
As she walked down the tiled path with Flamebeard, the two soon arrived at a small wooden house in the middle of nowhere.
"The king has been ill for the past few days. Sorry, he can't come here to welcome you personally."
"It's okay. I don't actually need to see the king unless he wants to see me... I'm actually here to ask you a question."
"I'll try my best to answer it, Duchess Reid."
The two stopped right at the doorway, not going inside the wooden house as Flamebeard waited for her to speak up.
"Is the rumor about a dragon roaming nearby true?"
Flamebeard fell into silence as he looked around, making sure nobody was nearby before giving Katherine a response.
"That rumor is obviously false. Why would a dragon go here out of all the places they could go in the world?
Whoever spreads those rumors is either delusional or has another motive... But there was a sighting of a relatively big monster recently."
