<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">While Felicia announced for the court to start and some of the people were prepared to approach, it was the entrance of someone not expected that brought their attention to the other side of the throne room, including Ellanore and Felicia. Sebastian approached the throne, only for Valentine to come closer and block the way. Mother and daughter looked at each other, clearly confused, but some sort of rivalry between the two is obvious, as if they were brothers. <br/>
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However, they were not the only ones who seemed to be feuding. A noble approached, ignoring the deal with the wolves and bowed. "Your Grace, if I may..." Felicia's attention was immediately directed to the man, leaving the wolves to deal with whatever they have their issues with. They are not causing any scene or interrupting her, but she also knew if she meddled, she might be going against the favor of the fresh alliance and decided to leave it alone. The noble who approached her came forward to complain about the rival family who allegedly blackmailed them, but the other head of the family came with other suspicious claims. Both Ellanore and Felicia seemed unfazed by this situation. This was a common theme among the nobles who fight for a position and whoever is on the same level and threaten their position, unfair and also illegal actions would take place. Through the interrogation, no proof of anyone doing anything was there and Felicia made a polite threat that they'll take action in doing very thorough investigation in both houses and if they find anything - they will be in a big trouble. If they are doing something, they'll more than likely stop immediately. The punishment from the Queen is not worth it.<br/>
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Afterwards, there were rather more uninteresting situations, some would bring gifts, suggestions and requests, which Felicia welcomes and takes to a closer consideration, which was mostly Victor's job as he voluntarily makes it his own business and best interest in the political stability within Nuverus. But then, the large doors were opened with guards dressed in black, clearly specialized forces, with Donovan, whose appearance was messy from a fight and he was covered in blood, though not his own, dragged a beaten and tortured man. Ellanore immediately noticed the black leather gloves that her brother wore, clearly indicating that he has spent some time with this man.<br/>
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"I apologize for the wait, your Grace." Donovan said as he forcefully pushed the man onto his knees in front of the throne. The man had his head bent down, still bleeding. Donovan used some tools and techniques that would prevent their natural regeneration . "He's a tough vermin, clearly trained. Look at the Queen, you disgraceful rat." Donovan showed his other nature other than a rather laid back type of a man who clearly has sadistic tendencies and pulled the man by his hair to make him look at the Queen.<br/>
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Felicia stared down at the man and glanced back at Donovan. He was slowly breaking the shell, though not completely. He'd never do this in public courts and he clearly wants to prove himself that he can go to the Den and that he wants to show some responsibility. Everyone has their wake up call and this was Donovan's. He is now, not only proving himself to the court, but showing his true face to everyone. And the nobles were visibly surprised, everyone thought that Donovan was just an irresponsible casanova. And they might even be afraid of him now. "Victor, who is this man?" Felicia asked.<br/>
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Victor went through the documents he had already prepared and found the paper, he rose his eyebrow as he grazed through with his eyes. "It says here that he's Florian Bechard, but this is clearly a false identity. His features don't indicate that he's of DeVilliers blood or even connected to them. In the documents, he seems pretty harmless." Victor was starting to go through papers, completely dazed, he thought he had authentic documents when he was going through. It was impossible he has missed something.<br/>
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"He is Florian. He's one of the Orphans." Donovan said and looked from Victor to Felicia. "I dug into his brain a bit and I found interesting details. While I couldn't figure everything out, I did find remarkable things. We have a team of suicide spies working with the hunters."<br/>
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"It's not suicide if it is for honor against the tyrants!" the man named allegedly Florian spoke, almost growled at them. Ellanore tilted her head and furrowed her brows in curiosity. This man was familiar to her. She walked down the steps and got close enough to the cuffed man who was looking back at her. "Oh, you." he said. "You'll learn when your time comes to sit on the throne."<br/>
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Ignoring man's probable threat to which Donovan responded with a unidentifiable tool digging into the man's wound, causing him to cry out in pain, Ellanore turned to Felicia. "I recognize this man. When I met with Wulfric, this man was in the attire of the Griffin guard. This must be Bennet's scheme." Ellanore stated. While the crowd were whispering among each other, Felicia seemed unfazed. <br/>
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"It would make sense that the Griffins want a alleged revenge against us and use their men to send out reports from the Nuverus to take our family. Who knows how many men came to Alexandria before we caught this one." Donovan said with a scowl.<br/>
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"The justice will be served! You will answer for your actions against the Griffins!" the man screamed and Donovan pushed the man down and pressed his foot against his head to keep him down. <br/>
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Felicia stared patiently, clearly thinking this over. She wasn't bothered by the captured man before her, but by the Griffins and how far they'll go. She looked at Valentine. "Valentine, once you send your forces to the bridges of the islands, make sure that the security out of Nuverus is stronger on the bridge to Den and maybe Alexandria, which we will make sure make it much harder to leave the island for those whose motives are questionable. Griffins are still at war with us." she stated and looked at the accused. "And this man, execute him. Execute every co-called Orphan or whoever works for the Griffins. This behavior will not be tolerated."<br/>
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Donovan smirked as he pulled out a knife made of special steel intended for killing vampires, which are not accessible to everyone. However, Ellanore stopped him. "No. Not here. I don't want our maids to clean the floor of this traitor. Do it outside." Ellanore demanded and Felicia agreed.<br/>
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"I agree. We don't want to cause anymore panic." <br/>
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Donovan pulled the struggling man up on his feet, joined by the other guards who made sure he doesn't fight back. "And the body?" the eldest son asked.<br/>
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Ellanore waved her hand dismissively with disgust on her face. "Toss it into the sea. He's not worthy of anything else."<br/>
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Without anymore questions, the man is forcefully pulled out of the throne room as he screamed at the royalty until he was gagged and brought outside. The whispers were louder among the court, everyone clearly amused and interested in the situation, until Felicia spoke up. "Silence! The court ends now. You are dismissed from the mansion until the further invitation. Thank you for your time." Felicia was helped up by Alissa as the guards began slowly seeing everyone out of the mansion as Victor seemed to be angry that he didn't see something about this accused man and gone back to the study. Ellanore sighed as she walked down the steps. She didn't mind the executions, just the complication of the situation.</span>​</div>