The next few days were tiring and frustrating for the Queen as well. Nothing happened, except for everyday life, and she didn't see her plans gong anywhere, not with General Cassian watching her every move like a hawk. Plus, even from a completely innocent point of view, having someone with her at every minute was getting more and more unnerving.<br/><br/>After a few days trying to get her mind to work, Queen Aeliana finally had to resort to the only thing she had a measure or privacy to do - write. During the daily hour she took after the morning meal to read and reply to letters, that were then given to a servant designed to care for them, the Queen wrote a long letter to one of the King's soldiers. She knew she could count on that specific man to jump off a cliff if she told him to. And what she had ordered him to do was something very close to suicide.<br/><br/>When the holiday finally came, the Queen followed the routine she always kept on this very special day. For the only day in the year she did so, she wore red in order to go to the temple and show her love and devotion to the Goddess. The young princes were taken in with their mother, since they were members of the royal family, and - that, of course, nearly nobody knew - were directly related to the Goddess herself.<br/><br/>The boys were them taken out of the temple, and their mother followed not much after them, Marina, as always, following her closely. As the General asked her that question, the Queen had her plan traced already. "To the arena, General. I shall be present, as the king would", she stated calmly. The progress to the arena would start as just a normal trip from one point to another. About midway, though, things changed abruptly.<br/><br/>As was traditional, the Queen would walk to the arena, though heavily guarded. Probably it was this tradition which gave some random man the chance to try something that could only be described as madness. Yelling something that sounded like "Witch!", the man pulled a dagger and tried to make for the general direction where the Queen - seemingly startled - had stopped walking.