Elliot did not rush to discuss the [Mad Queen] with Victoria. Instead, he found an excuse to leave.
He had a feeling she and Vanessa had plenty to talk about, too.
He had the Difference Engine anyway, so he could see everything Victoria and Vanessa said.
With the nobles watching the Hearthfire District now, the less he revealed of his power, the better.
More importantly, though, there was something urgent he needed to deal with.
"What? Holly's Egg hatched?!" Elsa looked shocked.
"What? Holly laid an egg?" Victoria's eyes widened.
Elsa hurriedly explained what had happened, then asked expectantly, "Miss Victoria, do you know any more about this?"
Victoria had fought alongside the members of the Communion for a long time, both in the Sea of the Moon and in the Abode. They were already companions.
That was precisely why she found Vanessa's concealment so hard to accept.
At first, she had merely found her interesting and treated her as someone to relieve her boredom, yet now she had started getting angry all on her own.
Victoria shook her head, set her tangled thoughts aside, and slowly spoke:
"I don't know why Holly turned into an egg either. There are no related transformations in the Royal Family's Path. Let's go take a look together."
Elsa casually grabbed a crow and asked her to open a mirror surface. Knowing she had caused trouble, Dorothea opened it without any noisy cawing.
The three women and one bird stepped out of the mirror and into a vast warehouse.
This was where Holly's Egg was being kept. Many branches had been arranged here in rings around Holly's Egg, crossed and secured together into a peculiar structure.
"Were these branches fished out of the Seabed too?"
"Oh, no, not these. I was worried Holly's Egg