Watching her friends go through the portal without her, Kryschenn mentally kicked herself one last time for not being able to go with them. With a frustrated sigh, she turned her attention to the Princess and turned on her most courtly-sounding speech.
"Your Highness, I realize the return of this man's daughter is of utmost importance," she said, unconsciously gesturing at Yodel with the rose she held. "But I need not remind you that one of your closest advisors was murdered this morning. I ask permission of Your Highness to investigate this crime. Please consider that I wish to clear my name since someone deliberately tried to frame me for the murder. Me and Eric." Her fist began to clench until her knuckles turned white, the only outward sign of how angry and, yes, scared this made her. The worst legal trouble she'd ever been in before in her life was a $5 parking ticket. Now, this. "I ask your permission to see the place where the Lady was murdered, and talk to the servants, especially whoever found her. And whoever found my pipes. And if Your Highness or anyone else who knows anything, any detail, even if it seems insignificant, I ask you to please tell me now."
