Emilia had grown desperately curious about the common people of the Dark Realm. She had seen inside the palace and around it’s grounds and had met a host of terrible, beautiful fay- but the royal family and their polished attendants were hardly representative of all of people she would some day rule. Were they like the villagers at home? How did they trade and learn and worship? What drove the average man?
So when Emilia heard the cooks chatting about the weekly market day as they stirred onions and carrots into a massive kettle of simmering stew, she knew this was her chance to really get her finger on the pulse of the people. First, she just had to get Faren on board…
She had spent the day walking the grounds with Tanya as she oversaw earth-magic fairies winterize the extensive garden
