He feels even more wrong when the door opens and he looks at her with barely any emotion at all. A far cry from the first time she met him. Still, if he's going to ask her so freely, she might as well get to the point.

"You made a deal with Efrain, didn't you?"

Valdis eyes the figurines, wondering if these will come to life too.

"Or if not Efrain, with one of the other Princes."