the Chess Queen: codex 1 by Maria Georgiou & Maria D. Georgiou
Her meeting with Kalliniki would have made even the hardest heart break. After the hugs and tender words, Kalliniki told her all the news of the palace. She told her where the queen was, particularly emphasizing that she had gone away without anyone to bid her farewell and assured her that the king and his son knew nothing for her act, that it was all cooked up by ‘that witch’ with her ugly priest. About the prince, she said she put her head on the block that he knew nothing.