The butler stared at her.

"By the King," Catt clarified. Her voice echoed off the polished marble walls of the palace narthex.

"You can check with the Visor," she added, at the butler's continued blank silence.

She was trying to think what else she could say, when the butler finally reacted.

"Wait here, if you please." The butler turned about, and strode away through the entrance hall, shortly vanishing around a corner.

Catt was left alone i...