Chapter 223: Her Past(1)

Aldric nodded once, deliberately. "It’s your bloodline," he said, his voice low but edged with urgency.

She was in the dungeons and was kept from the happenings of the nation. He needed her to understand, that the tides that were shifting around them were far greater than courtly squabbles. She had to act wisely now. Pride, etiquette, petty grievances... all of it meant nothing in the face of what was coming.