Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2122

To be tainted by corpse gas meant two possibilities. Either the person had long-term contact with corpses, or they had come into contact with a revenant.

There were no cemeteries in The Royal Palace. Whenever a palace servant died, the body was always removed and dealt with the same day. That meant the first possibility was out.

That left the second.

There were many kinds of corpses. Zombies were the kind that turned rigid after death, and those who died without stiffening were revenants.

Revenants were typically the newly dead, who somehow came back to "life". As they were so freshly dead, their appearances didn't differ much from the living and made them the easiest to overlook.

The Royal Palace was protected by dragon energy. For a revenant to appear even under such circumstances could only mean that the royal city's vigor had begun to decay.

Shannon had her suspicions but made no move to help Serena. Just from reading the latter's face, it was clear that she wasn't innocent.

As Shannon chose to wait and watch, Serena's hope to stay behind and watch over that night was denied. She had no choice but to trudge back to her quarters.

Once she stepped inside, a chill overtook her, despite the furnace still burning in the room. Her eyes fell on the figure lying motionless in bed.

It was stiff like a corpse.

She wanted to rush forward so badly, grab Grace, and ask if she was human or a ghost. But she didn't dare.

Deep down, she feared that Grace might no longer be human, and that it was her fault.

She tried to reassure herself that Skye was still in the room, and nothing had happened last night. She might as well pretend everything was fine.

The coronation would take place in a few days. As the queen's lady-in-waiting, she would be moved to new quarters near the queen's chambers. By then, she would no longer be stuck in this room with Grace.