No one looks for the dead.
And that's good news, because Caric, Ellcia, and Hemot have a deadly mission that will only work if no one is looking for them. It had been hard enough getting out of the castle months before, but how does anyone go about breaking into a city under lock-down, let alone the castle itself, ruled by a murderer and tyrant?
Not knowing their allies from their enemies, they still have one thing working in their favor:
No one looks for the dead.