Lord Kenny continued speaking; he sounded pretentious. "All you need to do tomorrow when we declare war is show up. I'm sure your presence will be enough to intimidate the royal guards, and they won't dare to fight us."

Lord Kenny's strategy was just to get things over and done with as quickly as possible.

"No!"

Yvette shook her head almost immediately, leaving no room for questioning in her tone. "Attack tomorrow if you must, but I won't be there. My suggestion is to take tomorrow off and a