>>103378074>You saw how fast they were and being out in the open with assassins on his ass is never a good idea.Better idea than staying in his room, right where the assassins expect him to be, pissing off his extremely powerful court wizard. The elves only have a couple of nights before they lose their fullmoon powers and their arms rot.
>Moreover, he didn't know they were also there for EzYou think he didn't? I got the impression that he did, given how he ordered the princes to be sent away, and also had some of the kingdom's best troops relocated to protect them. We know Callum didn't put two and two together, but he's a naive teenager.
>had those assassins failed, more would have been sent.Well, yeah, and he would have had to deal with those too. He is a king. Dodging assassination attempts is part of his job, that's why real kings had things like body doubles and food tasters.
Harrow died ("died") because he gave in to his own guilty conscience, more than anything.
