[IRP] A Fall From Grace: The Escape from Laus

[Lavi]

"Privacy, please?" Cecily asked again, waiting for the men to look away before changing into a fresh set of clothes.

Since none of them betrayed her at the Lausian gate, she presumed that it was safe to tell them her intentions. It would have been practically impossible for her or any of those who chose to help her to escape if one of them alerted the guards to her true identity. Even though Theodore will remain behind, Cecily did not have any reason to distrust these new acquaintances.

"I mean to travel to Bern. Are any of you willing to accompany me, the Lady Cecily Laus?" she asked them once she finished changing into her fresh clothes.

At least, that is who she is supposed to be. She had no idea whether she really was a bastard child, though it mattered little at this point. Word of her fall from grace will inevitably spread through Lycia; unbeknownst to her, other nobles were suffering the same fate as though the entire empire was purging its "heretics." What truly mattered is getting to Bern while evading Lycian authorities.