** Rebh (POV)**
[Kaarmanet, Frosliure Palace]
Seeing Applepie break down like that shattered my heart so much that it physically hurt me. I managed to hold her in my arms to take her back to the palace. When dad told us the entire series of events that led to Vira in an orphanage, I felt bad as well but it was nothing compared to what she felt. It wasn't fair to her in any way. I was angry at her family for saying such things and abandoning her and I wanted answers from them but my priority at that moment was to care for my Applepie.
As we left the castle, I took the secret passage back to the palace, but Applepie was feeling so low that she couldn't put one step after the other without swaying. After the third time of her almost falling I picked her up in my arms and walked the rest o
