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The night was cold and crisp and Thane's body lacked the warmth to ward off the chill Ashlynn felt as they raced through the night to the distant Lothian villa. Hours passed in near complete silence as neither of Nyrielle's progeny spoke for the duration of the trip, leaving Ashlynn alone with her thoughts.
From what she had read when preparing to marry Owain, she knew that the Summer Villa had been a treasure of the Lothian family for generations. While they referred to it as a villa, the combination of outer and inner walls gave the luxurious manor several attributes of a country fortress and a number of storied battles had even been fought at the villa.
Because of Nyrielle and her progeny, the Lothians had never been willing to engage in protracted sieges that lasted through the dark winter months. Doing so only invited disaster when the most powerful of Nyrielle's forces were the least restrained. Instead, wars between humans and the Eldritch nations tended to be brief but intense affairs fought in the late spring to early fall.
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