The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 261: The queen consort lived!

Not everyone was too pleased with the changes that Sigrid and Roland were making in the new empire. Murmurs of discontent were whispered in the royal family. Some royal relatives were not too happy to be left out when government positions were handled out.

In the two weeks that had passed, the whispers had turned into louder noise which Sigrid and Roland had been ignoring but the matter could not be ignored anymore, it seemed.

A meeting of the royal family was held, governed by Roland’s grandmother, King Raff’s mother, the Queen consort Sylvie Maximus. Sigrid had never met the woman, and she always assumed that she was dead.

For one, nothing about her appeared in the novel. Two, the queen consort did not attend her wedding and three, nobody mentioned the elderly woman. In fact, Sigrid found a fourth reason, she had not seen Sylvie when King Raff was injured. As they stepped foot into the grand manor Sylvie called home, Sigrid found herself feeling uneasy.

It was that feeling that somebody had eyes on them. Forget the rest of the royal relatives that had already arrived and were roaming around for one reason or the other. These eyes were coming from somewhere above them and they felt predatory.

"Someone is watching us." She whispered to Roland.

Roland saw his cousins, uncles, servants....pretty much everyone was looking at them. They were the Crown prince and princess, it was only natural that people were always looking at them.

"Everyone that is passing by is looking at us." he told her.

She shook her head, turned to the stairs that led up to the second floor and that’s when she saw the watcher. It was an elderly woman standing on the landing just above the steps. She had a walking cane in one hand and a middle aged maid was supporting her from one side.

It was not hard to guess that this was the queen consort, Roland had got his eyes from her.

"Grandmother, it is so great to see you. You haven’t aged a bit." Roland called out affectionately. The tone of his voice and smile on his face told Sigrid a different story. One that said their relationship was a good one. Which presented the question of why Roland had not mentioned the elderly woman if they were so close?

eyes. The queen consort looked to be as old as elder tree. Her unsmiling eyes were as cold as winter’s dawn. She was dressed in black, resembling a raven that was marking prey. There was something about her which Sigrid could only sum up

made Sigrid want to keep a distance between herself and the elderly woman. She had that look of the women in small towns that people talked

to pay for information. Is there anything

is a mage." The system

the answer which was unexpected. All this time, Sigrid had assumed that

her magic stripped

how long has she been

nine years."

a soft laughter of disbelief came from her. What it meant was that she had not awakened at birth because she was obviously approaching her last remaining years on earth. If she was to die at one

When had she awakened?

is

The system

She looked seventy six or early eighty at most. She had invested well in skin care apparently, or she was using her mage abilities to hold off aging

telling her about his old mage grandmother. Perhaps they could have met earlier and become friends. An old mage like her had stories to tell on

bad or good?" she

somewhere in

had ever done was not warn her husband, the former king about the fact that one of his son’s was poisoning him. Instead, like Romilda, she had secretly watched

as to why pretty quickly, the queen consort was a mage and her husband