It was dark, well... probably because I had my eyes closed, but this type of darkness to the point that I could not even see a glimmer of sunlight is too deteriorating that it was driving me insane. What actually happened before I passed out in the middle of that thick forest? I was too drained, but something horrifying was chasing me that I had no time to recollect myself so I just kept running and running through the dark. Alec was there, or is he not? He was in his dragon form, he saved me. He came right before I was attacked by those... ghouls? Is that what they were called? Why is it that I can't remember too much? "Princess... wake up!" Princess? Me? I am not a princess nor anything of significance, I am only a palace maid... Princess Thalia is the real one. Ah, I should be waki