Hanna's eyes fell on some of the servers carrying trays. She didn't recognize them and the trays they were carrying looked strange. Before she could say anything a young girl took a pastry from what looked to be one of the castle's serving trays. Once she bit into it her eyes rolled back into her head and she fell to the floor convulsing. Before anyone could get to her she stopped convulsing. That would have been a good thing if it hadn't meant that she was dead.
"MURDER!" a man close to the girl said. "THIS BALL IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO KILL US NORMAL HUMANS!"
Everyone looked around confused then the man who had yelled grabbed the server and pulled her hair back revealing a pointed ear. There were gasps of shock and people dropping what they were holding like it too had been poisoned. It didn't seem like it occurred to them that if the food and drink were poisoned they were too late since they had been eating and drinking. Someone shouted "KILL THEM!" and that seemed to be some sort of cue. The servers with the strange trays pulled curved short swords from under them. A dagger was tossed to the man who held the woman and he slit her throat.
Hanna pulled out one of her hidden daggers out and prepared to fight. Taking a look at Kevin she asked "Can you fight?"
Kevin just stood there looking scared for a moment but then said "I have had a little training."
Hanna took out another of her hidden daggers out and handed it to Kevin saying "Stay ready to fight then. With any luck we won't have to fight."
Hanna didn't get a chance to say anything else as the false servers charged and started killing castle staff. She wondered for a moment how this battle was going to turn out.